Police officers stop vehicles at a checkpoint in the Karrada district of Iraq's capital Baghdad on March 14, 2021, as they enforce a total curfew imposed to curb COVID-19 coronavirus cases. (AFP)
A healthcare worker in Iraq sprays pesticides on livestock to prevent the spread of animal-borne viral hemorrhage fevers (Photo: Handout/Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture)
Veterinarian Karrar Ibrahim Hindi examines a sick buffalo, at a farm in the marshes of Iraq's southern district of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, March 26, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Minister of Health Saman Barzinji (center) chairs the first meeting of the Kurdistan Region's anti-biological threats agency, April 21, 2022. (Photo: Ministry of Health/Facebook)
Iraqi Health Minister Hani Musa Al-Aqabi during a workshop attended by the WHO representatives in Iraq and the Middle East in Baghdad, March 6, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Health Ministry)