Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date)
Week 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
BA.2.86.1.1.16.1.7.9 36 35 44 39 66 67 35 45 52 57 20 1
Total 504 466 435 409 450 458 361 334 377 328 192 36
BA.2.86.1.1.16.1.7.9 % 7% 8% 10% 10% 15% 15% 10% 13% 14% 17% 10% 3%

Last Updated: 7th August 2026 21:59 BST — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for BA.2.86.1.1.16.1.7.9

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.