| Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 |
| BA.2.86.1.1.16.1.7.9.1.1.1 | 109 | 94 | 96 | 103 | 80 | 94 | 92 | 79 | 50 | 31 | 5 | – | – |
| Total | 774 | 823 | 747 | 900 | 935 | 1040 | 1031 | 985 | 784 | 497 | 112 | 6 | – |
| BA.2.86.1.1.16.1.7.9.1.1.1 % | 14% | 11% | 13% | 11% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 8% | 6% | 6% | 4% | 0% | – |
Last Updated: 7th October 2026 21:12 BST — Local: …
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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.