Covid 19 -

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Data valid as at 23:59 GMT October 18th, 2020.

Note: As not all Australian States report at the same time, the data below is based on the previous full day reporting except for the Victorian 14 day moving averages.

8 new cases for Australia and no deaths so the CMR drops to 3.300% while active cases drop to 1,379. NSW recorded 5 cases, WA 3 & SA 2 cases with the balance in Victoria.

The Victorian State 14 day moving average is down to 8.43 with metro falling to 7.2 (15 unknown) and regional at 0.5 with no unknown cases (including today). Victoria reported 4 new cases for the last 24 hours.

3 new cases and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.326% and active cases fall to 42.

The UK had a slightly higher 16,981 new cases yesterday. We know they are now not counting their mortalities by the WHO guidelines so we are going to ignore the CMR but even using their method they recorded 67 deaths.

Just over 54.5k new cases in the USA yesterday and 638 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.688% and active cases remain at 32.2% with the raw numbers rising and still over 2.6M. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 40M with the last 1M taking 3 days again;
Europe passes 7M cases;
South America passes 9M cases;
North America passes 10M cases;
The USA completes 125M and India 94M tests;

Azerbaijan (647) - the previous high on June 6th
Malaysia (871)
Armenia (1,694)
Netherlands (8,182)
Belgium (10,964)
Italy (11,705) all recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive days.