[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT March 6th, 2021.

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

14 new cases for Australia and no deaths so the CMR is 3.132%.

No new cases and 0 deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.088% and active cases 68.

The UK had a slightly higher 6,019 cases yesterday and 158 deaths, the 12th consecutive day under 10k cases.

Just under 70k new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,831 deaths sees CMR up to 1.810%. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points: (weekend reporting)
Global cases pass 1147M, the last 1M in 2 days;
North America passes 34M cases;

To give an idea about what 'weekend recording means', the countries that don't report (with their rounded 5 day average in brackets) include: Spain (6k), Peru (5.8k), Libya (0.8k), Bosnia & Panama (0.5k), Venezuela (0.45k), Costa Rica & Oman (0.3k), El Salvador (0.2k) - for a total of ~15k cases.

Gabon (371);
Jamaica (527); and
Hungary (7,269) - the previous high on 29/9/20;

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

No countries move above the 90th percentile for their 10 day average while Malaysia drops below.