This is stated on a special website of the organization.

It is clarified that 15.012 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the world. At the same time, the number of deaths of patients with COVID-19 exceeded 619 thousand.

Most cases are currently recorded in the Region of the Americas - 7.948 million people.

Earlier, the director of the WHO's health emergencies program, Michael Ryan, said that people "will not begin to receive the vaccine until the first half of next year."

Senior Researcher of the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with the NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.