Ardern said the sacrifices made by New Zealanders, including a drastic seven-week lockdown that helped curb infection rates, had been rewarded now that there were no active cases in the country.
A white Minneapolis police officer has been charged with murder in the May 25 death of African-American man George Floyd.
The United States has suffered by far the largest number of both COVID-19 deaths and infections.
The 60-year-old woman was believed to have taken her own life, police said.
The remarks came after the Labor Department said the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3% from 14.7% in April, suggesting the economic downturn may have bottomed out.
France has deployed more than 5,000 troops to combat jihadist groups in the region — a largely lawless expanse stretching over Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, where drugs and arms flow through porous borders.
The finding had led the World Health Organization (WHO) to suspend clinical trials into the medicines last month.
More than 3,500 patients have been recruited across 35 countries to take part in the trials.
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New York, the economic capital of the United States, and around 40 other cities across the country have imposed curfews after violent protests against police brutality triggered by the death of African-American George Floyd in Minnesota.
