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Data valid as at 23:59 GMT October 20th, 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.

30 new cases for Australia and no deaths so the CMR drops to 3.299% while active cases rise to 1,398. NSW recorded 5 cases, WA had 24 with the balance (1) in Victoria.

The Victorian State 14 day moving average is down to 7.21 with metro falling to 6.2 (12 unknown) and regional at 0.4 with no unknown cases (including today). Victoria reported 3 new cases for the last 24 hours.

1 new case and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.325% and active cases fall to 35.

The UK had a new record 21,330 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 241 deaths.

Just over 60.5k new cases in the USA yesterday and 458 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.663% and active cases steady at to 32.3% with the raw numbers rising over 2.7M. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 41M with the last 1M only taking 3 days;
Europe set a new daily case high of 154,647 (20/10);
The USA completes 127M, India 96M, UK 30M, Poland 4M, Morocco & Portugal 3M and Venezuela 2M test;

Albania (301)
Greece (667)
Bosnia (728)
Georgia (1,194)
Bulgaria (1,336)
Iran (5,039)
Czechia (11,984)
Spain (13,873) - the highest since 18th September
Russia (16,319); and
the UK (21,330) all recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive days.