New Zealand cricketer James Neesham on Monday congratulated the citizens of his country as the last COVID-19 case recovered and now the nation has no active cases. As of Monday, New Zealand had no active COVID-19 cases and hadn-t recorded a new infection for 17 days.

The last case of the virus spreading from an unknown source – a previously used definition of community transmission – occurred on April 30, according to data published by the Government-s Environment Science and Research institute ESR, reports stuff.co.nz.