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5 new cases for Australia and no deaths so CMR drops to 1.399% and active cases drop to 405 (5.6%).

No new cases or deaths for NZ so CMR is unchanged and active cases remain at zero.

The UK had just over 1.5k new cases and 202 deaths so the CMR is down to 14.120%.

Just over 23k new cases in the USA yesterday and 904 deaths sees CMR down to 5.553% but active cases rise to 55.4%.

Other notable points:
Global new cases set a daily high of 133,933;
Asia recorded a high for daily new cases with 39,329;
Africa recorded a high for daily new cases with 7,462;
The USA completes 23M tests, Russia 14M and Canada 2M;

Ivory Coast (280), Israel (226), Ethiopia (245), Nepal (448), Bolivia (884), Oman (1,117), Argentina (1,391), Egypt (1,577), South Africa (3,359), Bangladesh (3,471), Saudi Arabia (3,921), Pakistan(6,397) and Chile (6,754) all recorded new daily highs, those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.