People walk through a new addition to the Las Vegas Convention Center during the World of Concrete convention Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Las Vegas. (Photo: AP)

The total number of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide has increased to 3,768,856 with the global confirmed cases reaching 174,729,478 as of 9:00 am BJT on Friday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Source: Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University

Current status (data as of 9:00 am BJT, June 11):

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden on Thursday agreed to work to resume travel between UK and US as they met ahead of the Group of Seven (G7) summit.

After seven months of closure, restaurants, bars and cafes throughout France are now able to host customers indoors, albeit still at half of their seating capacity and with tables limited to a maximum of six people.

South Africa "technically" entered the third wave of COVID-19 on Thursday according to the statistics, the country's National Institute for Communicable Diseases said in a statement of daily update on COVID-19.

The Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile, where the capital is located, will go into total lockdown on Saturday due to the spread of COVID-19 infections in the country, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Cuba reported on Thursday 1,158 new COVID-19 infections and 12 more deaths, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 153,578 and the death toll to 1,057, the Ministry of Public Health said.