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Data valid as at 00:00 GMT December 30th, 2020.

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

31 new cases for Australia and 1 death so the CMR is 3.203%. NSW recorded 25 cases, SA 3, Queensland and Victoria recorded 2 each.

No new cases and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.162% and active cases 49.

The UK had 50,023 cases yesterday and 981 deaths.

Just under 201k new cases in the USA yesterday and a new high of 3,717 deaths sees CMR rise to 1.736% and active cases at 39.0% with the raw numbers rising and now over 7.7M. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 83M, the last 1M in 1 day;
Global deaths pass 1.8M, the last 50k in 5 days;
Global deaths set a new daily high of 14,314;
Africa sets a new daily high with 30,409 new cases;
The USA passes 20M cases;
North America passes 23M cases;
The USA completes 251M, India 170M, Russia 90M, and Colombia 8M tests.

Estonia (968) - 27% above the previous high;
Latvia (1,367);
Ireland (1,718);
UAE (1,728);
Tunisia (2,414) - the previous high on October 8th;
Lebanon (2,878);
Lithuania (3,934);
Panama (4,465) - 34% above the previous high;
Czechia (16,329); and
South Africa (17,710) - 18.5% above the previous high;

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