Can anyone explain why there has only been 45-46 BCH blocks mined in the past 24H and average wait time is roughly 30 mins between blocks???

Not sure I have ever seen this before, I know the average wait time between blocks is normally closer to 6 min. I’m currently waiting on an extremely small transaction, and I have to wait until the transaction has 6 confirmations before it is available to me, so this means I’ll probably have to wait potentially 3-4 hours before my whopping $10 is available to spend? Quite ridiculous.