This is evidenced by data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
It is noted that the number of deaths of patients with COVID-19 has reached 4,871,841.
Earlier, WHO Chief Researcher Sumya Swaminatan compared the fight against coronavirus with a marathon and said how far humanity has already covered in this "race."
In July, Vitaly Zverev, microbiologist, scientific director of the Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with URA.RU, emphasized the importance of achieving population immunity to coronavirus in the world.