According to statistics on a special website of the organization, to date, almost 3.6 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the world.
The number of victims of COVID-19 has already exceeded 247 thousand.
Most of the patients, more than 1,593 million, were recorded in the European Region.
On March 11, WHO declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic.
The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.