More and more people in the EU are congregating indoors. The highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire in countries like France and Spain.

Thailand reports a record number of coronavirus infections, while neighboring Malaysia has more than a million.

The Delta variant is upending assumptions about coronavirus disease even as nations loosen restrictions and open their economies, virologists and epidemiologists say.

South Korea reports a daily record of nearly 1,800 coronavirus cases as the country is grappling with a new surge.

The United States has seen a nearly 50-percent spike in Covid-19 infections this week compared to last week.

The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is sweeping Asia this week, prompting curbs as vaccination remains tepid.

The White House says it will send out special teams to hot spots around the United States to combat the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant as the country saw a rise of 10 percent in cases this week.

Australia's New South Wales state warns that significant numbers of new COVID-19 cases were being found in the community for a third straight day.

A tally shows that COVID-19 cases are rising again in Europe after falling for two and a half months, mainly because of the Delta variant in Britain and Russia.

Here is the latest top stories from Press TV on June 24, 2021.