In total, more than 6.9 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed to date.

Including over the past day recorded more than 131 thousand new cases of infection with coronavirus.

Earlier, WHO Director-General Tedros Adan Gebreyesus said that the increase in cases of COVID-19 infection is observed in South America, most countries in Africa, as well as in areas of Eastern Europe, South and Central Asia.