Iraqi people wearing protective masks are seen at a shopping mall after malls reopened, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions are eased, in Baghdad, Iraq July 19, 2020. REUTERS/Saba Kareem/File Photo
2021-06-27
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SULAIMANI — Iraq’s Ministry of Health said on Sunday (June 27) it recorded 4,468 new coronavirus infections and 30 deaths in the country over the past 24 hours.
Of that total, 1,011 of the newest cases are in Baghdad governorate, along with 922 in Basra, 380 in Najaf, 338 in Wasit, 304 in Diwaniya, 298 in Sulaimani, 205 in Babil, 174 in Erbil, 164 in Nineveh, 135 in Karbala, 117 in Kirkuk, 109 in Muthanna, 94 in Maysan, 84 in Diyala, 41 in Saladin, 39 in Duhok, 37 in Dhi Qar, and sixteen in Anbar.
The ministry reported that 30 patients died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus infection, and 4,266 recovered from it.
Meanwhile, 13,066 people were vaccinated in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region over the past 24 hours, including 538 people in Erbil, 954 in Duhok, and 84 in Sulaimani.
According to the ministry, 850,278 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 1,325,700 officially-recorded cases of coronavirus across Iraq since the virus first appeared in the country last year. At least 1,231,225 patients have recovered from COVID-19 and a total of 17,091 people have died from it in Iraq.
The numbers are almost certainly an undercount.
(NRT Digital Media)