Weekly totals of variants in New Zealand
Week 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
NB.1.8.1 56 38 37 31 44 42
XFG 3 4 9 5 7 3
XFP 1
Total 88 67 77 44 60 58
NB.1.8.1 % 64% 57% 48% 70% 73% 72%
XFG % 3% 6% 12% 11% 12% 5%
XFP % 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Last Updated: 14th August 2025 22:44 BST — Local:

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.