Covid 19 -

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126 new cases for Australia and 15 deaths sees the CMR rise to 2.603% while active drop to 3,459. NSW recorded 12 cases, Queensland recorded 2 cases with the balance in Victoria.

2 new cases and 0 deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.250% and active cases drop to 115.

The UK had 1,733 new cases and as we know they are now not counting their mortalities by the WHO guidelines we are going to ignore those figures.

Just over 41k new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,090 deaths sees CMR drop to 3.020% and active cases drop to 40.6% with the raw numbers actually dropping. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass the 26M mark with the last 1M taking 4 days again;
India completes 45M, Russia 37M and Morocco 2M tests;
Asia records a new daily high of 111,783 new cases;
Europe records a new daily high of 36,362 new cases;

Palestine (596), Moldova (632), Czechia (656), Paraguay (800), Nepal (1,228), Israel (2,991), Indonesia (3,622), Iraq (4,755), Spain (8,959), Argentiona (12,026) and India (84,516) all recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.