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Data valid as at 23:59 GMT October 24th, 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.

15 new cases for Australia and no deaths so the CMR drops to 3.291% while active cases rise to 1,413. NSW recorded 5 cases, WA 4 with the balance in Victoria.

The Victorian State 14 day moving average is down to 5.21 with metro falling to 4.6 (9 unknown) and regional still at 0.2 with no unknown cases (including today). Victoria reported 7 new cases for the last 24 hours.

11 new cases and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.293% and active cases rise to 74.

The UK had a higher 23,012 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 174 deaths.

Just under 83k new cases in the USA yesterday and 903 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.621% and active cases up to 32.2% with the raw numbers rising and now over 2.8M. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
It's the weekend so case numbers should be down a bit today -

Global deaths pass 1.15M with the last 50k taking 9 days;
Global cases set a new daily high of 490,737 (23/10);
North America set a new daily case high of 94,682 (23/10);
Colombia passes 1M cases;
The USA completes 132M, India 102M, Turkey 13M, and Czechia 2M tests;

Latvia (259)
Lithuania (474)
Serbia (757) - 31% up on the high yesterday
North Macedonia (647)
Luxembourg (862) - 30% up on the previous high
Greece (945)
Malaysia (1,228) - 41% up on the previous high
Bosnia (1,265) - now 5 days in a row
Georgia (1,941) - now 5 days in a row
Slovenia (1,961)
Croatia (2,242) - 33% up on the high yesterday
Austria (3,614) - 41% up on the high yesterday
Slovakia (2,890)
Portugal (3,669)
Belgium (17,568)
Italy (19,644); and
France (45,422) all recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive days.