Coronavirus: Global cases surpass 6.5m as New Zealand records no new infection for 13 days

Coronavirus has infected more than 6.5 million people across the world and killed more than 386,000 according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Here are the latest updates on the pandemic from around the world: New Zealand New Zealand is on the verge of eradicating the virus from its shores after it notched a 13th straight day with no reported new infections. Only a single person in the nation of five million people is known to still have the virus, and that person is not in hospital. However, it remains likely that the country will import new cases once it reopens its borders, and officials say their aim remains to stamp out new infections as they arise. The country has already...