An MSF nurse checking on a patient in COVID-19 centre at Al-Kindi Hospital in Baghdad. Iraq, February 2021. HASSAN KAMAL AL-DEEN/MSF
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SULAIMANI — Iraq’s Ministry of Health said on Wednesday
(September 29) it recorded 2,254 coronavirus infections and 34 deaths in the
country over the past 24 hours.
Of that total 174 of the newest cases are in Baghdad
governorate, along with 665 in Sulaimani, 359 in Erbil, 325 in Duhok, 230 in
Nineveh, 97 in Basra, 82 in Kirkuk, 58 in Diyala, 57 in Saladin, 46 in Wasit,
42 in Najaf, 38 in Babil, 31 in Maysan, 26 in Anbar, eleven in Karbala, six in Dhi
Qar, four in Diwaniya, and three in Muthanna.
The ministry reported that 34 patients died from COVID-19,
the disease caused by coronavirus infection, and 3,389 recovered from it.
Meanwhile, 29,741 people were vaccinated in Iraq and the
Kurdistan Region over the past 24 hours, including 3,624 people in Erbil, 1,839
in Sulaimani, and 2,477 in Duhok.
According to the ministry, 4,727,375 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 2,000,869 officially-recorded cases of
coronavirus across Iraq since the virus first appeared in the country last
year. At least 1,907,411 patients have recovered from COVID-19 and a total of
22,221 people have died from it in Iraq.
The numbers are almost certainly an undercount.
(NRT Digital Media)