Weekly totals of variants in New Zealand
Week 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
NB.1.8.1 8 19 36 50 38 31
XFG 1 1 2 3 5 2
XFP 1 1
Total 35 50 67 89 70 55
NB.1.8.1 % 23% 38% 54% 56% 54% 56%
XFG % 3% 2% 3% 3% 7% 4%
XFP % 0% 0% 0% 0% 1% 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.