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Data valid as at 23:59 GMT September 27th, 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.

24 new cases for Australia and 2 deaths so the CMR rises to 3.222% while active cases rise to 1,595. NSW recorded no cases for the first time since July 3rd (85 days); Queensland recorded 1, WA recorded 7 cases and the balance were in Victoria.

The Victorian State 14 day moving average is now 23.93 with metro at 20.3 (31 unknown) and regional at 0.6 and no unknown cases. Victoria reported 5 new cases for the last 24 hours.

2 new cases and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.364% and active cases drop to 59.

The UK had 5,692 new cases yesterday. We know they are now not counting their mortalities by the WHO guidelines so we are going to ignore those figures.

Just over 43k new cases in the USA yesterday and 737 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.870% and active cases drop to 35.0% with the raw numbers falling slightly. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global deaths pass the 1M mark;
India passes 6M cases;
The USA completes 104M, India 71M, Russia 45M, Italy 11M and Turkey 10M tests;

Only the Netherlands (2,995) recorded a new daily high; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.