Total active cases eases further to ~55,700

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That is the lowest since 16 October with the 7-day incidence rate also keeping lower at 19.3, so that will continue to feed through to the lower daily totals above.

Despite the much improved virus situation, medical capacity is still somewhat stretched - perhaps now allowing for hospitals to deal with other illnesses - as there were only 3,459 (15%) intensive care beds still available as of yesterday.

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