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44 new cases for Australia and 7 deaths sees the CMR rise to 3.039% and active cases drop to 2,379. NSW recorded 9 cases with the balance in Victoria. The Victorian State 14 day moving average is now 65.0 with metro at 54.4 (94 unknown) and regional at 3.9 with only 3 unknown.

2 new cases and zero deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.336% and active cases fall to 97.

The UK had 3,330 new cases yesterday. We know they are now not counting their mortalities by the WHO guidelines so we are going to ignore those figures.

Just over 39k new cases in the USA yesterday and 707 deaths sees CMR fall to 2.967% and active cases drop to 37.9% with the raw numbers rising again. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass the 29M mark with the last 1M taking 4 days again;
Global new cases recorded a record high of 310,692;
The USA completes 92M, India 56M, Australia 7M & Romania 2M tests;
Europe records a new daily high of 41,055 new cases;

No countries recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.