8.15 am: New Zealand has reported the 12th consecutive day of no new cases, the Guardian reports. Only one person is still recovering fr...

8.15 am: New Zealand has reported the 12th consecutive day of no new cases, the Guardian reports. Only one person is still recovering from the virus. The country has reported fewer than 1,500 cases and 22 deaths.
“Even though are in this very favourable position in New Zealand, there are record numbers of cases being reported globally every day,” Ashley Bloomfield, the director-general of health says. “This pandemic continues apace outside our borders and we cannot afford to let our guard down.”
8 am: The number of deaths in Brazil crosses 30,000.
#BREAKING Brazil surpasses 30,000 coronavirus deaths, says official pic.twitter.com/S8V1Un1Yey
— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 2, 2020
7.55 am: The East Coast Railway will run five intra-state special trains in Odisha from June 8. They will travel to Sambalpur, Balangir, Bhadrak, Brahmapur and Koraput districts, PTI reports.
7.52 am: Pakistan Cabinet approves the export of domestically-manufactured Personal Protective Equipment and sanitizers, PTI reports. The country has a total of 76,398 infections and 1,621 deaths so far.
7.48 am: Some of the controversies include the ban on cigarettes and tobacco products but not alcohol in level three of the restrictions in South Africa, according to PTI. Another was the home delivery of food items in level four. Only home delivery was allowed, which led to several people getting the food...