Weekly totals of variants in all locations
Week 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
XFG 27 28 48 51 86 103 172 280 446 833 710 732
NB.1.8.1 103 130 193 310 432 465 508 697 649 794 809 861
Total 3090 2806 2915 2575 2715 2507 2501 2854 2876 3507 3141 2956
XFG % 1% 1% 2% 2% 3% 4% 7% 10% 16% 24% 23% 25%
NB.1.8.1 % 3% 5% 7% 12% 16% 19% 20% 24% 23% 23% 26% 29%

Last Updated: 8th September 2025 22:44 BST — Local:

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.