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Data valid as at 23:59 GMT October 26th, 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.

14 new cases for Australia and no deaths so the CMR drops to 3.288% while active cases fall to 1,416. NSW recorded 4 cases, WA 2, SA 3 cases with zero in Victoria.

The Victorian State 14 day moving average is down to 3.29 with metro falling to 2.8 (6 unknown) and regional still at 0.2 with no unknown cases (including today). Victoria reported no new cases for the last 24 hours.

5 new cases and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.289% and active cases rise to 74.

The UK had a higher 20,890 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 102 deaths.

Just over 64k new cases in the USA yesterday and 448 deaths sees CMR drop to 2.592% and active cases up to 32.5% 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:
The USA completes 134M, India 103M, UK 32M, Spain 16M, Ukraine 3M and Luxembourg 1M tests;

Norway (433) the highest since 27th March
Lithuania (766) - now 6 days in a row and 26% up on yesterday
North Macedonia (647)
Denmark (1,056)
Malaysia (1.240)
Bulgaria (2,243) - 41% above the previous high
Canada (4,109)
Netherlands (10,343) and
Russia (17,347) all recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive days.