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Data valid as at 23:59 GMT October 17th, 2020.
Not posted yesterday because of Bathurst.

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.

12 new cases for Australia and no deaths so the CMR drop to 3.301% while active cases drop to 1,381. NSW recorded 5 cases, WA & SA 2 cases each with the balance in Victoria.

The Victorian State 14 day moving average is down to 9.5 with metro falling to 7.5 (15 unknown) and regional at 0.5 with no unknown cases (including today). Victoria reported 2 new cases for the last 24 hours (ended 11:00 18/10).

3 new cases and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.328% and active cases rise to 44.

The UK had a slightly higher 16,171 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 150 deaths.

Just over 71.5k new cases in the USA yesterday and 928 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.698% and active cases drop to 32.2% with the raw numbers falling but still over 2.6M. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
The USA completes 124M, India 93M, Russia 53M & Venezuela 2M tests;
Europe recorded a new daily case high of 153,184 after the previous high was amended slightly;

Bosnia (716)
Malaysia (869)
Slovenia (898)
UAE (1,538)
Armenia (1,540)
Austria (1,747)
Hungary (1,791)
Morocco (3,763)
Ukraine (6,410)
Netherlands (8,114)
Poland (9,622)
Italy (10,925)
Argentina (26,107) and
France (32,427) all recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.