TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 32344 SUBJECT: GRB 220708A: Swift-XRT observations DATE: 22/07/08 06:02:25 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester M. Perri (SSDC & INAF-OAR), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), D.N. Burrows (PSU) and J.A. Kennea (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: The XRT began observing the field of GRB 220708A at 05:20:39.0 UT, 2469.3 seconds after the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 767 s of promptly downlinked data, which covered 94% of the BAT error circle. We are waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the XRT counterpart.