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Data valid as at 23:59 GMT October 28th, 2020.

Note: As not all Australian States report at the same time, the data below is based on the previous full day reporting except for the Victorian 14 day moving averages.

13 new cases for Australia and 2 (old) deaths so the CMR rises to 3.292% while active cases drop to 1,422. NSW recorded 8 cases, Queensland 2, WA & SA 1 case each and 2 in Victoria.

The Victorian State 14 day moving average is down to 2.71 with metro falling to 2.4 (4 unknown) and regional at zero with no unknown cases (including today). Victoria reported 3 new cases for the last 24 hours.

2 new case and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.286% and active cases fall to 66.

The UK had a higher 24,700 new cases yesterday. We know they are now not counting their mortalities by the WHO guidelines so we are going to ignore the CMR but even using their method they recorded 310 deaths.

Just over 75k new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,038 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.558% and active cases rise to 32.4% with the raw numbers rising and now over 2.8M. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases set a new daily high of 500,796;
North America sets a new daily high of 245,776;
India passes 8M cases- almost 18% of all cases;
The USA completes 136M, India 105M, Italy 15M and Netherlands 3M tests;

Albania (311)
Lithuania (776)
North Macedonia (870) - 36% above the previous high
Azerbaijan (988)
Serbia (1,328)
Greece (1,547)
Bosnia (1,586)
Lebanon (1,850)
Sweden (1,980)
Slovenia (2,612) - 33% above the previous high
Bulgaria (2,760)
Portugal (3,960)
Romania (5,343)
Switzerland (8,616) - 30% above the previous high
Netherlands (10,343)
Germany (16,202) - 20% above the previous high
Poland (18,820) - 19% above the previous high; and
Italy (24,991) all recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive days.