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Global

During the last 14 days, global CMR's have mostly been dropping with the global average now at 1.195% compared to 1.214% in the previous period and 2.163% a year ago today.

Case numbers decrease again with 10.08M in this period compared to 10.57M in the previous period with 23,876 deaths in the last period for a lower CMR of 0.237% on an unadjusted basis. It should be noted that a number of countries (mostly in Africa) haven’t reported in this period.

Overall the increase in cases numbers was 1.9% and the variance in the number of deaths only 0.38%.

Countries (with >100k cases) that were above 5% growth rate are headed by North Korea (+100%); Taiwan (+74.6%);New Zealand (+10.1%);Australia (+10.1%);Japan (+6.2%) and Panama (+5.0%).

Very few countries saw their mortalities increase by much with North Korea (+100%); Taiwan (+32.5%); Iceland (+22.2%); New Zealand (+19.0%); Australia (+7.2%) and Finland (+5.8%) the only significant growth amongst countries with >100k cases.