On the morning of June 12, the world recorded over 3.8 million deaths, China increased to 91,394 cases.

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According to statistics website worldometers.info, as of 8:00 a.m. on June 12 (Vietnam time), the world recorded 176,026,374 cases of Covid-19, including 3,800,087 deaths. The number of patients cured was 159,929,013 cases.

The US remains the hardest-hit country with 14,928 new infections and 406 deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases and deaths to 34,305,280 and 614,717, respectively.

India ranks second with a total of 29,358,033 cases, including 367,097 deaths, after adding 84,695 new cases and 4,000 deaths. Next is Brazil with a total of 17,301,220 cases, including 484,350 deaths.

In Asia, China's National Health Commission said on June 12 that mainland China recorded 35 new cases on June 11, up from 22 a day earlier. Of the new cases, eight were locally transmitted, all in southern China's Guangdong province.

The total number of cases in mainland China has now increased to 91,394, including 4,636 deaths.

South Korea also recorded 565 new cases on June 12, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to 147,422. In the past 24 hours, the country also had 1 more death, bringing the total number of deaths from Covid-19 to 1,982. The mortality rate is 1.34%.

In the Americas, Argentina's death toll has surpassed 84,000 after 689 more deaths from Covid-19 were recorded on June 11. The total number of deaths from the disease has now risen to 84,628.

In the past 24 hours, the country also had 26,934 new infections, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to 4,093,090. In the context of the complicated developments of the epidemic, Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti said on the same day that the country will extend mandatory social distancing and disease prevention measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic until June 25.

On June 11, Minister Vizzotti also signed a decision to authorize the emergency use of the Convidecia vaccine against Covid-19, researched and manufactured by Chinese pharmaceutical company Cansino Biologics, in the context that the South American country is struggling to cope with the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic with the number of new cases and deaths continuously increasing.

On the same day, Argentina also signed a contract to purchase vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm and will receive an additional 2 million doses of the company's vaccine this month.

Meanwhile, a flight carrying 943,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Mexico will arrive in Argentina early next week. In addition to the above vaccines, Argentina has also signed contracts to purchase Covid-19 vaccines from various partners such as Russia's Sputnik V and India's Covishield. Argentina is also participating in the COVAX mechanism coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be able to access other necessary vaccine sources.

The US pharmaceutical company Moderna said on June 11 that it had not found any link between its Covid-19 vaccine and cases of a rare inflammatory heart syndrome reported in young adults after receiving its vaccine. Moderna stressed that this conclusion was made after "a thorough review of the available safety data for its Covid-19 vaccine on cases of myocarditis and/or pericarditis".

In a statement, Moderna said it "will continue to closely monitor the information and actively coordinate with regulatory agencies and the public health community to further evaluate this issue."

In a statement on June 11, Mr. Ralph Goodale, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, said that Canada will contribute 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to low-income countries.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to make the announcement on June 13 at the end of the G7 summit in Cornwall, UK. Trudeau's announcement will be part of the G7 leaders' commitment to provide a total of at least one billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine to other countries./.