According to statistics on the special website of the organization, 292,527 cases of coronavirus were detected in the world per day. As indicated by TASS, before in the WHO, such a large number of patients per day in the world had not yet been recorded.
The total number of cases has already exceeded 17 million, and the number of deaths due to COVID-19 has reached 668,910.
Most of the detected cases are currently recorded in the Region of the Americas - more than 9.152 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.