[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT March 18th 2022.

52,341 new cases for Australia and 27 deaths so the CMR is 0.150%. Interestingly, we rank 27th globally for total case numbers despite being 55th in population size while we are ranked 79th in terms of deaths.

NZ recorded 19,616 cases and 10 deaths for a CMR of 0.031%.

The UK recorded 92,135 cases and 125 deaths yesterday for a CMR of 0.814%.

60,110 new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,215 deaths sees CMR at 1.225%.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 467M;
17/3 was the first day over 2M global cases since 17/2;
Asia set a new daily highs with 1,001,884 cases on 17/3;
Europe passes 169M cases;
Asia passes 130M cases;
North America passes 96M cases;
Hong Kong passes 1M cases;

Only
Thailand (27,071);

...recorded new 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 the 10 day period while El Salvador and Bahrain drop below.