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Data valid as at 23:59 GMT November 19th, 2020.

Note: As not all Australian States report at the same time, the data below is based on the previous full day reporting.

8 new cases for Australia and no deaths so the CMR drops to 3.264% while active cases rise to 1,372. NSW recorded 5 cases and Queensland recorded 3.

2 new cases and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.244% and active cases fall to 37.

The UK had a higher 22,915 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 501 deaths.

Just over 176.5k new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,961 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.158% and active cases rise to 37.5% with the raw numbers rising and now over 4.4M. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 57M with the last 1M taking 1 day;
Global deaths set a new daily record of 10,980 (18/11);
The USA passes 12M cases;
India passes 9M cases;
Russia passes 2M cases;
The USA completes 174M, India 128M, Germany 26M and Ukraine 4M tests.

Finland (351);
Albania (786) for the 5th consecutive day;
Belarus (1,382);
Japan (2,151) - the previous high on August 3rd;
Azerbaijan (2,597);
Georgia (3,697);
Serbia (6,109);
Ukraine (13,357);
Russia (23,610); and
Germany (23,676)

... all recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive days.