Weekly totals of variants in Australia (by specimen date)
Week 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
PQ.2 28 28 22 27 22
Total 120 128 72 92 43
PQ.2 % 23% 22% 31% 29% 51%

Last Updated: 7th June 2026 21:58 BST — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for PQ.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.