[russellw]

Data valid as at 23:59 GMT December 8th, 2020.

Note: As not all Australian States report at the same time, the data below is based on the previous full day reporting.

15 new cases for Australia and 0 deaths so the CMR drops to 3.244%. NSW and Queensland recorded 6 cases each, the NT 2 and WA recorded 1.

7 new cases and no deaths for NZ so CMR is 1.199% and active cases drop to 54.

The UK had a lower 12,281 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 599 deaths.

Just over 213k new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,563 deaths sees CMR drop to 1.888% and active cases rise to 39.7% with the raw numbers rising and now over 6.1M. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 68M with the last 1M in 2 days;
Global deaths pass 1550k with the last 50k in 5 days;
North America passes 18M cases;
The USA completes 210M, India 148M, UK 45M, Russia 80M, UK 46M, France 27M, Turkey 20M and Canada 12M tests.

Cyprus (419);
Denmark (2,150); and
Turkey (33,918)

... recorded new daily highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive days.