“We are particularly worried about Central and South America, where many countries have witnessed a growing epidemic,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Along with this, he added that an increase in cases of coronavirus is also observed in the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and Africa.
Previously, WHO called America the center of the coronavirus 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.