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723 new cases for Australia and 13 deaths (both record highs) sees the CMR rise to 1.159% but active cases drop to 5,495. NSW recorded 18, WA & SA 1 each, Queensland 3 and the balance were in Victoria.

1 new case and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.410% and active cases rise to 24.

The UK recorded 846 new cases and 38 deaths yesterday so the CMR drops to 15.216%.

Just over 66k new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,485 deaths sees CMR down to 3.368% and active cases at 47.5% with the raw numbers still rising. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases set a new daily high with 290,674;
The USA passes 150k deaths;
The USA completes 57M, India 18M and Germany 8M tests;
Asia records a new high for daily cases with 79,059 (and today is going to be higher already);
South America records a new high for daily cases with 95,675;

Hong Kong (149), Libya (216), Venezuela (701), Morocco (1,046), Ukraine (1,197), Philippines (3,954), Argentina (6,377) and India (54,996) all recorded new daily highs, those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

Victoria is struggling to get on top of it, with another 623 cases reported today and 25% of those who they visit for contact tracing not even at home where they should be. It's these self-centred knobs that will infect other people and slow down the efforts to beat it. Do we need to start consider fitting them with ankle bracelets so we can track them?

Globally, it's not improving much either, with only Europe not exceeding it's 90th percentile case numbers at all during the last week. Conversely, Africa has had one day over and that was a new record; North America has had three days over including a new record; South America has had 5 days over including a new record and Asia has had every day of the last seven over the 90th percentile including a new record high. In fairness, it should be noted that the continent case numbers are only recorded from May 1st onward and thus some may have had higher totals prior to that which would impact the 90th percentile calculation.