| Weekly totals of variants in Australia (by specimen date) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| NB.1.8.1 | 70 | 60 | 58 | 44 | 58 | 26 | – | – |
| XFG | 38 | 27 | 32 | 16 | 19 | 4 | – | – |
| BA.3.2 | 48 | 27 | 34 | 10 | 11 | 11 | – | – |
| Total | 165 | 120 | 128 | 72 | 92 | 43 | – | – |
| NB.1.8.1 % | 42% | 50% | 45% | 61% | 63% | 60% | – | – |
| XFG % | 23% | 23% | 25% | 22% | 21% | 9% | – | – |
| BA.3.2 % | 29% | 23% | 27% | 14% | 12% | 26% | – | – |
Last Updated: 7th June 2026 18:58 BST — Local: …
Growth Charts
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.