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Global 24/4/22 (figures up to 23/04/22)

During the last 14 days, global CMR's have mostly been dropping with only a handful rising and the global average is now at 1.226% compared to 1.244% in the previous period and 2.205% a year ago today.

Case numbers continue to decrease significantly with 10.73M in this period compared to 17.42M in the previous period with 40,779 (a 58% reduction) deaths in the last 14 days for a higher CMR of 0.394% on an unadjusted basis.

Overall the increase in cases numbers was 2.1% but the variance in the number of deaths only 0.65%.

Countries (with >100k cases) that were above 10% growth rate include China (+18.1%); New Zealand (+13.4%); Australia (+11.2%) and South Korea (+10.0%).

Very few countries saw their mortalities increase by much with New Zealand (+29.0%), South Korea (+13.3%);Austria (+10.1%); Iceland (+8.9%); Finland (+8.4%) and Australia (+6.2%) the only significant growth amongst countries with >100k cases.