[russellw]

15 new cases for Australia and no deaths so CMR drops to 1.391% but active cases rise to 382 (5.2%).

No new cases or deaths for NZ so CMR is unchanged and active cases remain at zero.

The UK had just 968 new cases and 38 deaths so the CMR is down to 14.059%.

Just over 20k new cases in the USA yesterday and 331 deaths sees CMR down to 5.451% and active cases drop to 54.3%.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass the 8M mark;
The US completes 25M tests and Russia 15M;
Africarecorded a high for daily new cases with 8,874;
Asia recorded a high for daily new cases with 39,512;

Liberia (40), Kyrgyzstan (87), Yemen (116), Ivory Coast (355), Nepal (451),Bahrain (786), Egypt (1,691) andSaudi Arabia (4,507) all recorded new daily highs, those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.