Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date)
Week 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
RF.5 24 16 30 20 34 26 21 13 13 33 4
Total 1816 1491 1390 1161 997 658 509 448 215 151 39
RF.5 % 1% 1% 2% 2% 3% 4% 4% 3% 6% 22% 10%

Last Updated: 16th May 2026 21:58 BST — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for RF.5

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.