As of 5.00 pm on 24 June, the number of confirmed coronavirus (known as Covid-19) cases around the world has jumped to 9,341,978.

No new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Viet Nam on June 24 afternoon, Viet Nam's National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control said. Viet Nam has gone 69 consecutive days without a domestically transmitted infection, and has registered a total of 349 cases, with no deaths. One of the remaining 21 patients in Viet Nam who tested positive for coronavirus have been discharged from hospital, taking the total of patients given the all-clear to 329 till date, the Committee said. This means 94.3 percent of the cases in the county have made a full recovery from the illness.

Thus far six people have been diagnosed with the disease in Da Nang, and all of them have been cleared of the virus.