New Delhi (NVI): Around 6.5 million coronavirus cases have been confirmed around the world with more than 3,86,000 fatalities, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The coronavirus death toll in Brazil and Mexico soared to new daily record, with 1,349 and 1,092 confirmed fatalities, even as the country begins to ease lockdown restrictions.
Brazil now has more than 32,000 deaths, while Mexico has over 11,000 deaths.
The total number of confirmed cases in Brazil has surged past 5,80,000.
In the US, more than 1.8 million coronavirus cases have been recorded, including at least 107,000 deaths.
South Korea has confirmed 39 additional cases of the coronavirus, all but three of them reported in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area as authorities are struggling to contain a resurgence of the COVID-19.
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 5 million people is known to still have the virus, and that person is not hospitalized.
Meanwhile, Canberra Airport has opened a register for travelers interested in flying from the Australian capital to New Zealand on July 1 in a proposed resumption of international travel, according to media reports.
