OREANDA-NEWS. On June 22, there are 592 280 (7 600 per day) cases of coronavirus infection reported in Russia. 8 206 (95 per day) died of the disease. In Moscow, 20 people died of the coronavirus in a day. Over 344 000 people have recovered since the beginning of the epidemic.

Russia is the third most affected (by COVID-19) country in the world by the number of people infected.

To begin mass vaccination of the population against coronavirus infection may require up to 70 million doses of the drug, said the director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Alexander Gintsburg. Mass vaccination of the population against the virus may start already in the coming autumn, he said.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world has exceeded 8.7 million, more than 461 thousand died. According to current data from Johns Hopkins University, the number of those infected in the world has exceeded 8.9 million, of which 467 thousand died.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has resulted in an ongoing pandemic.