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Data valid as at 00:00 GMT February 18th, 2021.

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

1 new case for Australia and no deaths so the CMR is 3.144%.

4 new cases and 1 death for NZ so CMR is 1.109% and active cases 46.

The UK had 12,057 cases yesterday and 454 deaths.

Just under 72k new cases in the USA yesterday and 2,541 deaths sees CMR up to 1.766%. Note that the USA is actually minus one day due to time differences.

Other notable points:
Global deaths pass 2.45M, the last 50k in 5 days;
Brazil passes 10M cases.

No countries (for the 2nd consecutive day)

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