New Zealand is set to lift all Covid-19 restrictions in the country, after declaring itself free of the virus.
The country will only maintain its stringent border controls, as the last case of Covid-19, a lone woman aged in her 50s, who lived in Auckland, was today declared recovered by health officials having reportedly been gone 48 hours symptom-free.
Infections globally have passed 7 million and deaths have passed 400,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Covid-19 infections now stand at 7,031,249.
The US is the worst-affected country, with 1,942,363 confirmed cases and more than a quarter of the world’s deaths: 110,514. There are 16 countries with more than 100,000 confirmed cases.
