A man who has recovered from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) donates his plasma to help critically ill patients at National Blood Transfusion Center in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 18, 2020. (Reuters)
2021-06-29
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SULAIMANI — Iraq’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday (June 29) it recorded 6,558 new coronavirus infections and 35 deaths in the country over the past 24 hours.
Of that total, 1,745 of the newest cases are in Baghdad governorate, along with 966 in Basra, 562 in Dhi Qar, 371 in Wasit, 350 in Najaf, 318 in Babil, 275 in Diwaniya, 269 in Maysan, 255 in Karbala, 247 in Duhok, 243 in Sulaimani, 214 in Diyala, 168 in Nineveh, 162 in Erbil, 136 in Muthanna, 133 in Kirkuk, 104 in Saladin, and 40 in Anbar.
The ministry reported that 35 patients died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus infection, and 5,055 recovered from it.
Meanwhile, 27,316 people were vaccinated in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region over the past 24 hours, including 1,357 people in Sulaimani, 1,141 in Duhok, and 615 people in Erbil.
According to the ministry, 879,187 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 1,338,604 officially-recorded cases of coronavirus across Iraq since the virus first appeared in the country last year. At least 1,240,978 patients have recovered from COVID-19 and a total of 17,156 people have died from it in Iraq.
The numbers are almost certainly an undercount.
(NRT Digital Media)