Data published by the World Health Organization.
In the last 24 hours, 2,618,130 cases have been identified.
The total has increased to 296,496,809.
The death toll increased to 5,462,631.
Earlier, the general director of the contract research company "KEG", immunologist, candidate of medical sciences Nikolay Kryuchkov, in an interview with URA.RU, expressed the opinion that "the lethality of the omicron line, judging by the latest data, is indeed significantly lower than that of the delta."