Covid 19 -

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Data valid as at 00:00 GMT February 24th, 2021.

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

2 new case for Australia and no deaths so the CMR is 3.141%.

2 new cases and 0 deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.099% and active cases 62.

The UK had 9,938 cases yesterday and 442 deaths.

Just under 71k new cases in the USA yesterday and 2,440 deaths sees CMR up to 1.782%. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 113M, the last 1M in 2 days;
Global deaths pass 2.5M, the last 50k in 6 days;
Europe passes 800k deaths.

South Sudan (348); and
Réunion (655);

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

Sweden, France, Lebanon and Montenegro move above the 90th percentile for their 10 day average while Libya and the Ivory Coast drop below.