As it happened: Global deaths pass 700,000 - BBC News
The worldwide toll continues to increase by thousands each day, fuelled by the US, Brazil and India.
New York City plans to introduce quarantine checkpoints at key entrances to the city to screen travellers arriving from parts of the US with rising numbers of coronavirus cases.

“Travellers coming in from those states will be given information about the quarantine, they will be reminded that it is required, not optional,” the city's mayor Bill de Blasio explained at a news conference on Wednesday.

“They’ll be reminded that failure to quarantine is a violation of state law and it comes with serious penalties," he added.

Travellers from more than 30 states must quarantine for 14 days after arriving in the city.

According to the head of New York City's test and trace service, a fifth of all new local infections are from travellers.

Once the city worst affected by coronavirus, New York has reported no coronavirus deaths in three days, Mayor de Blasio said.