According to statistics on a special website of the organization, to date, more than 8.708 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the world.
The number of people who died with COVID-19 exceeded 461 thousand.
Earlier, the WHO announced a possible period of preservation of immunity to coronavirus.
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.