According to statistics on the organization's special website, more than 17.918 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the world to date.
The number of deaths of patients with COVID-19 exceeded 686 thousand
Most of the cases are currently recorded in America - 9.630 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.