This is stated on a special website of the organization.
It is specified that 16.114 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the world. At the same time, the number of deaths of patients with COVID-19 exceeded 646 thousand.
Most of the cases are currently recorded in the Americas - 8.610 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.