Covid-19 Pandemic In Iraq: Details of ongoing viral outbreak in Iraq
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Iraq in February 2020.
| COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Number of confirmed cases by province as of 8th May 2020 Confirmed cases 1–9 Confirmed cases 10–49 Confirmed cases 50-99 Confirmed cases 100-199 Confirmed cases ≥200 | |
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Iraq |
| First outbreak | Qom, Iran |
| Index case | Najaf |
| Arrival date | 22 February 2020 – present (4 years, 2 months and 1 day) |
| Confirmed cases | 3,032 |
| Active cases | 918 |
| Recovered | 1,966 |
Deaths | 115 |
| Government website | |
| https://www.facebook.com/MOH.GOV.IQ/ | |
Cases
Cases have been confirmed in all 19 Iraqi Governorates as of the 27 March, with the Iraqi Kurdistan region having 309 (26%) of those cases as of 8 April.
During the pandemic, Iraq reported its first confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections on 22 February 2020 in Najaf. By April, the number of confirmed cases had passed the hundred mark in Baghdad, Basra, Sulaymaniyah, Erbil and Najaf.
Testing
As of 7 April, 28,414 tests had been done in Iraq (including the Kurdistan Region), with 1202 of them turning out positive.
Weakness
Iraq is thought to be especially vulnerable to the epidemic due to being weakened by the Iraq War and United Nations sanctions, by sectarian conflict and the rise of Islamic State over the past three decades.
References
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