[russellw]

4 new cases for Australia and no deaths. CMR drops to 1.433% and active cases drop to 6.8%.

No new cases or deaths for NZ so CMR is the same and active cases remains at 1.8% (27).

The UK had just over 1.6k new cases and 121 deaths so the CMR drops to 14.133%.

Just over 18k new cases in the USA and 617 deaths sees CMR down to 5.894% and active cases up to 67.8%.

Other notable points:
The global total of cases passes 5.5M;
The USA has completed over 15M tests;

Syria (20),Malaysia (172), Armenia (452), Afghanistan (591), Bangladesh (1,975) and Chile (4,895) all recorded their highest daily total to date - those in blue on consecutive days and in red on the 3rd (or more) consecutive day.