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Data valid as at 23:59 GMT October 4th, 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.

15 new cases for Australia and 1 death so the CMR rises to 3.295% while active cases drop to 1,376. NSW recorded 2 cases and SA recorded 1 with the balance in Victoria.

The Victorian State 14 day moving average is now 12.71 with metro at 11.6 (13 unknown) and regional up to 0.3 and no unknown cases. Victoria reported 9 new cases for the last 24 hours.

5 new cases and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.348% and active cases remain at 41.

The UK had a slightly higher 7,982 new cases yesterday but the redistribution of missed cases in September put several days over 10k new cases including a record of 11,754 on October 2nd. We know they are now not counting their mortalities by the WHO guidelines so we are going to ignore the CMR.

Just over 50k new cases in the USA yesterday and 757 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.819% and active cases drop to 33.8% with the raw numbers rising. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases set a new daily high of 321,762 on 2nd October;
Russia is over 10k daily cases with the highest number since early May;
The USA completes 111M, India 78M and the UAE 10M tests;
Asia passes 11M cases and 200k deaths;
Europe recorded an amended daily case high of 71,293 (2/10);

Tunisia (1,286); Belgium (3,389) and the Netherlands (4,003)recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive days.