Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date)
Week 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 01 02 03 04 05 06
B 115 166 186 186 250 228 158 104 85 39 21 3
Total 2174 2069 1914 1938 1912 2009 1491 1404 1236 684 193 15
B % 5% 8% 10% 10% 13% 11% 11% 7% 7% 6% 11% 20%

Last Updated: 3rd February 2026 21:58 GMT — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for B

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.