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8 new cases in Australia yesterday and 1 death so the CMR increases to 1.415% but active cases drop to 7.9% (555).

4 new cases in NZ so CMR improves to 1.397% and active cases remains unchanged.

Just over 2,400 new cases and 545 deaths in the UK so the CMR rises to 14.204%.

More than 22k new cases and 1k deaths in the USA sees a fall in the CMR to 5.933% and active cases are down to 71.1%.

In other news:
The global case total will pas 5M sometime today;
Australia has now recorded 100 deaths;
Russia has the 2nd highest number of cases of any country and will pass 300k today;
Brazil (16,260), India (6,147), Peru (4,550), Chile (3,520), Kuwait (1,073), Egypt (720), Afghanistan (581), Kazakhstan (311) and Yemen (37) all recorded their highest daily totals since the epidemic began.