“We are not where we would like to be,” RIA Novosti quotes his answer to the question about compliance with the vaccination rate, according to which it was planned to vaccinate 40% of the world's population by the end of 2021.

Earlier, UN Secretary General António Guterres called on the governments of the countries to strengthen control measures due to the situation with the spread of the new omicron coronavirus strain.

In turn, the Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told what the end of the COVID-19 pandemic depends on.