WHO Extends Emergency State due to COVID-19, Warns of Rising Infection  

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today, Monday, extending the state of emergency for the eighth week in a row due to the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19).

The United Nations (UN) organization warns that infection with deadly virus threatens all countries across the globe.

The Emergency Commission at  the WHO  issued a statement says that Director- General  Tedros Adhnum Ghebreyesus  adopted guidelines set by the commission as COVID-19 has an international importance.

The organization's experts pointed out that the Coronavirus pandemic "continues to negatively affect the health of the world population."

They stressed that "the risks of the disease spreading on an international scale" and its implications for international transportation require a "coordinated global response."

Meanwhile, Tedros Adhnum Ghebreyesus appeared at a news conference today, Monday, in Geneva, Switzerland.

He revealed   that he received information indicated that 5.2 million people were contracted the virus within the last seven days.

He went on to say that the toll of death due to the pandemic is still rising for the fifth week respectively.

He affirmed that more than three million persons died of COVID-19 since the outbreak of the disease late in 2019.

Ghebreyesus expressed concern at the high speed of infection among people at age of 25 to 59 years.

He guessed that high numbers of infections may be linked to the new strains of the virus.

He  went on to say that about one million people died of the virus within the last nine months.

But the number leapt to two million in the following four months.

In another context, Tedros Adhnum Ghebreyesus considered that there are sufficient tools to control of the Coronavirus with a few months to come.

Since January 2020, the world has been facing a chronic health crisis caused by the outbreak of the new Coronavirus infection   which began to spread from the Chinese city of Wuhan and led to huge losses in many sectors of the economy, especially transport, tourism and entertainment, the collapse of global stock exchanges and the acceleration of the decline Energy markets.