Wellington: Newzealand is one of the first country Covid-19 free countries in the world to return to free pandemic normality on Monday. There is no denying this is a milestone.. thank you said Newzealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a press conference.

Its 75 days of restrictions included about seven weeks of a strict lockdown in which most business were shut and everyone except essential workers at stay home. Today 75 days later, we are ready, Ardern said, announcing that Social distancing restrictions would end at mid night.

She had done a little dance, she said. When she was told there were no more active Covid-19 cases, surprising her two year old daughter, Nave she was thought a little by surprise and she joined it having absolutely no idea why I was dancing around the longue.

Newzealand has reported 1154 infections and 22 deaths from Covid-19 since the virus arrived in the February. Newzealand a nation of five million people lifted all social and economic restrictions except border controls after declaring on Monday.

Public and private events the retail and hospitality industries and all public transport were allowed to resume without the distancing rules still in place across much of the world.