According to statistics on a special website of the organization, to date, more than 15,785 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the world.

The number of deaths of patients with COVID-19 exceeded 640 thousand

The majority of cases are currently recorded in America - 8.385 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.