The total number of cases on February 23 was 427,358,056.

In total, 5,904,723 people have died from coronavirus in the world.

Earlier, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced the rapid spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus in the world and the increase in mortality.

Director of the Scientific Information Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Viral Infections Georgy Vikulov, in an interview with the NSN, commented on the situation with the pandemic against the backdrop of the spread of the omicron coronavirus strain.