Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date)
Week 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41
RK.1 108 92 96 108 104 120 99 103 72 39 10 1 –
Total 774 823 747 900 935 1040 1031 985 784 497 112 6 –
RK.1 % 14% 11% 13% 12% 11% 12% 10% 10% 9% 8% 9% 17% –

Last Updated: 7th October 2026 21:12 BST — Local: …

Growth Charts

Growth chart for RK.1

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.