Latest coronavirus stats: Pronounced declines in several countries and broadly good news for the UK and US

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• APRIL 21: Here's our daily summary of country-by-country coronavirus stats.
• Summary: Broadly good news!
• US and UK remain in sustained declining plateaus.
• Italy, Spain, Germany and France are in pronounced declines.
• Austria, New Zealand and Australia now have close to zero cases.
• Japan and Russia remain behind the curve, unfortunately.
• Scroll down for the charts from Worldometers.
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Japan still in the teeth of the storm.

Pantheon Macroeconomics

Western Europe is past the peak.

Pantheon Macroeconomics

From Pantheon: New York City cases in pronounced decline.

Pantheon Macroeconomics

Australia: Just 13 new cases yesterday and that declining "active cases" measure is a thing of beauty.

Worldometers

New Zealand: Now under 10 new cases per day, and boy does it show in that declining "active cases" curve.

Worldometers

Sweden: Three days of declining new cases in a row but that could be due to weekend reporting anomalies. Fingers crossed?

Worldometers

Austria: Now at fewer than 50 cases per day — that's down at the level of South Korea.

Worldometers

Russia: For the first time, new cases declined. Too early to say it's a trend but this is the first bit of good news from Russia since the crisis began. Deaths still trending up, however.

Worldometers

The UK: Like the US, locked into its plateau with only the slightest of declines in sight. A good day for deaths, however. Deaths have not been under 500 since the beginning of the month.

Worldometers

Germany: Another new low in cases. Germany has tackled this with speed. A bad day for deaths, but they are a lagging indicator.

Worldometers

France: In new cases, the lows are getting lower and the highs are getting lower too. That's good news. Deaths also appear to be trending down.

Worldometers

Italy: Wow x2! A new record low in cases for Italy. Deaths continued to trend downward too. Like Spain, you can see the end of the lockdown coming on stats like these.

Worldometers

Spain: Wow! Huge day for Spain! Just 1,536 new cases! We haven't seen lows like that for more than a month. (Let's hope it's not a weekend data collection issue.) Deaths also remain in decline. You can see why Spain has chosen now to end its lockdown.

Worldometers

The US: Another day, another 30,000 positive COVID-19 tests. The good news here is that the plateau in new cases might be sinking slowly into a decline. But the numbers are still high.

Worldometers