| Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 |
| PQ.2.8.1 | 20 | 17 | 19 | 29 | 37 | 66 | 59 | 53 | 40 | 16 | – | – | – |
| Total | 2070 | 2017 | 2153 | 1657 | 1729 | 1918 | 1621 | 1263 | 839 | 327 | 38 | – | – |
| PQ.2.8.1 % | 1% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 0% | – | – |
Last Updated: 24th February 2026 21:58 GMT — Local: …
Growth Charts
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.