The World Health Organization announced today, Thursday, that it is forming an independent committee to review its dealings with the Covid 19-disease pandemic, as well as the governments' response to the epidemic, and warned that the pandemic is out of control, at a time when the number of infected people exceeds 12 million people.

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Gebresos said - in a video conference with the 194 members - that the scale of the epidemic that affected nearly everyone in the world "deserves an appropriate, fair assessment."

Corona virus is getting worse and out of control in most parts of the world, according to the WHO's director-general.

"We will not be able to overcome the pandemic if we are divided," he said, warning that the "divisions" of the international community are contributing to the continuation of the epidemic.

He explained that the committee - to be formed by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - will submit an interim report to the annual meeting of health ministers in November, and then submit a "substantive report" next year.

The announcement came in the wake of strong criticism from the administration of US President Donald Trump, who accused the World Health Organization of being "centered around China" and officially informed on Tuesday of its withdrawal within a year from the United Nations organization.

According to the latest Reuters count, more than 12 million people have been infected with Corona virus worldwide, and 548,429 people have died so far.

The Covid-19 epidemic, which is spreading rapidly in the world, forced Australia to re-impose isolation measures in the country's second largest city, Melbourne, with a population of five million.

Although this country is still far from the outcome of countries - such as the United States and Brazil - with nearly 9,000 injuries, including 106 deaths, the city of Melbourne is witnessing a new outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic by registering it about days ago about 100 new cases per day, in a setback to the Australian authorities that were Seems able to control the virus.

European

In Europe, the epidemiological situation appears stable, although the old continent records the largest number of deaths (200,000) as a result of the epidemic, more than two thirds of which are in the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Spain.

In Serbia, new clashes erupted Wednesday in Belgrade during a march of protesters angry at the authorities' management of the emerging Corona virus crisis.

In France, the mayor of Paris announced that the city will launch its traditional fireworks from the Eiffel Tower on July 14, but without an audience.

As for Finland, it has announced the reopening of its borders to tourists from 17 European countries, excluding France and Luxembourg.

In contrast, the virus continues to spread in the United States, with more than 132,000 deaths and 3 million infections.

After the situation stabilizes in the first hotspots of the virus, especially in New York, the country faces a rise in the number of infections in the south and west, forcing several states to suspend the lifting of the closure.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump called on schools to open their doors, denying a surge in infections, and in his tweet, he said, "The death rate from the emerging coronavirus has declined ten times."

The epidemic continues to spread rapidly in Latin America and the Caribbean, accounting for more than 3 million infections, and more than half of it was recorded by the competent authorities in Brazil.

Brazil is the second most affected country with 67,964 deaths, among the 1 million, 713,160 injured, including President Jair Bolsonaro, who continues to say he is in good health.

In Peru, the death threshold exceeded 11,000, a week after the gradual lifting of the closure began. Mexico recorded a new record casualty hit of 6,995 injured Wednesday. The official toll in Venezuela also rose, from 1,500 injuries in early June to more than 7,000 a month later.

The continent of Africa is still relatively untouched by the virus, whether in terms of injuries or deaths, but on Wednesday it crossed the 500,000 infection threshold after early July it crossed the 10,000 death threshold.

Arably

Iraq announced on Thursday that it had recorded 103 deaths from the Corona virus, bringing the number of deaths to 2,882, while the number of infections reached 69,612, and 39,502 cases of recovery were recorded.

In Sudan, the Ministry of Health announced the registration of five deaths and 74 injuries, in addition to the recovery of 126 patients.

Lebanon announced 66 cases of corona infection, while Tunisia detected ten cases of the virus.

Among the Palestinians inside the Green Line, the Arab Emergency Authority said that the number of the injured has reached today (Thursday) two thousand and 760, with 297 new injuries recorded since the beginning of this week.