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71 new cases for Australia and 5 deaths sees the CMR rise to 2.866% while active drop to 3,063. NSW recorded 10 cases; Queensland 2, WA 1 with the balance in Victoria.

5 new cases and zero deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.354% and active cases rise to 116.

The UK had 2,998 new cases yesterday and as we know they are now not counting their mortalities by the WHO guidelines we are going to ignore those figures.

Just over 40k new cases in the USA yesterday and 707 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.999% and active cases drop to 39.3% with the raw numbers rising again. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
The USA completes 87M, India 48M and Portugal 2M tests;
Africa passes 30k deaths;

Paraguay (1,217), Morocco (2,234) and India (91,723) all recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

Worth commenting on, is the gap between Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this 2nd wave, Australia was either ahead or line-ball with New Zealand for most statistics but the gap is now an ever increasing one.

CMR, which AU led, is now 1.35% for NZ and 2.86% for Australia;
Cases per 100k adults, which used to be fairly close, is now 37 for NZ and 180 for AU;
Mortalities per 100k adults which was also fairly even is now 0.65 for NZ and 4.2 for Australia.

From a global perspective, they are both good results, particularly with the reasonably high volumes of testing in both countries.