Weekly totals of variants in USA (by specimen date)
Week 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
NB.1.8.1 20 10 15 14 2
XFG 77 38 56 44 9 2
BA.3.2 18 11 15 11 6
Total 129 70 94 73 18 3
NB.1.8.1 % 16% 14% 16% 19% 11% 0%
XFG % 60% 54% 60% 60% 50% 67%
BA.3.2 % 14% 16% 16% 15% 33% 0%

Last Updated: 7th June 2026 18:58 BST — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for NB.1.8.1
Growth chart for XFG
Growth chart for BA.3.2

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge GISAID and the many data contributors around the world for sharing SARS-CoV-2 sequences.

This analysis makes use of the Nextclade CLI.
Aksamentov, I., Roemer, C., Hodcroft, E. B., & Neher, R. A., (2021). Nextclade: clade assignment, mutation calling and quality control for viral genomes. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(67), 3773, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03773

Special thanks to Josette Schoenmakers ( @josetteschoenma.bsky.social on BlueSky @JosetteSchoenma on Twitter) for the table concepts.