Healthcare workers on a break in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, on May 21, 2020. Reuters
2021-06-28
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SULAIMANI — Iraq’s Ministry of Health said on Monday (June 28) it recorded 6,348 new coronavirus infections and 30 deaths in the country over the past 24 hours.
Of that total, 1,877 of the newest cases are in Baghdad governorate, along with 816 in Basra, 472 in Wasit, 454 in Dhi Qar, 350 in Najaf, 338 in Duhok, 325 in Maysan, 274 in Sulaimani, 266 in Babil, 195 in Karbala, 189 in Diwaniya, 184 in Kirkuk, 149 in Erbil, 139 in Nineveh, 126 in Diyala, 94 in Saladin, 52 in Muthanna, and 46 in Anbar.
The ministry reported that 30 patients died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus infection, and 4,698 recovered from it.
Meanwhile, 25,146 people were vaccinated in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region over the past 24 hours, including 612 people in Erbil, 1460 in Duhok, and 1997 in Sulaimani.
According to the ministry, 863,198 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 1,332,046 officially-recorded cases of coronavirus across Iraq since the virus first appeared in the country last year. At least 1,235,923 patients have recovered from COVID-19 and a total of 17,121 people have died from it in Iraq.
The numbers are almost certainly an undercount.
(NRT Digital Media)