Weekly totals of variants in New Zealand (by specimen date)
Week 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
XDV.1.5.1 20 30 20 30 23
Total 56 71 55 68 35
XDV.1.5.1 % 36% 42% 36% 44% 66%

Last Updated: 7th April 2026 12:58 BST — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for XDV.1.5.1

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.