Iraqi medical staff check passengers' temperature, amid coronavirus outbreak, upon their arrival from Iran, at Najaf airport in Iraq March 5, 2020. (Photo Credit: Reuters)
2021-06-24
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SULAIMANI — Iraq’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday (June 24) it recorded 6,093 new coronavirus infections and 31 deaths in the country over the past 24 hours.
Of that total, 1,416 of the newest cases are in Baghdad governorate, along with 1,135 in Basra, 622 in Wasit, 409 in Dhi Qar, 380 in Najaf, 254 in Sulaimani, 245 in Maysan, 242 in Diwaniya, 240 in Babil, 213 in Duhok, 205 in Karbala, 166 in Nineveh, 145 in Diyala, 132 in Erbil, 116 in Kirkuk, 78 in Anbar, 54 in Saladin, and 41 in Muthanna.
The ministry reported that 31 patients died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus infection, and 4,030 recovered from it.
Meanwhile, 27,108 people were vaccinated in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region over the past 24 hours, including 1,078 people in Erbil, 1,340 in Sulaimani, and 1,315 in Duhok.
According to the ministry, 829,248 people have been vaccinated in Iraq, a country of more than 40 million, since the first shipment of vaccines arrived on February 28.
There have been 1,311,093 officially-recorded cases of coronavirus across Iraq since the virus first appeared in the country last year. At least 1,217,982 patients have recovered from COVID-19 and a total of 16,999 people have died from it in Iraq.
The numbers are almost certainly an undercount.
(NRT Digital Media)