Health

Interior of Erbil International Airport (EIA). (Photo: Sabr Dri)

Kurdistan

KRG establishes new protocols at airports to accommodate travelers with autism

A man mourns over a tombstone at a cemetery for Covid-19 victims, 20km from the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

New protective strategy needed to combat the rising number of COVID-19 deaths: Iraqi health official

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein during a press conference in Brussels, Jan. 20, 2022. (Photo: Johanna Geron/AFP)

Iraq

Iraq’s FM ‘in good condition’ following COVID-19 infection: Spokesperson

An Iraqi man is inoculated against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a vaccination center of Kufa, northeast of Najaf, July 25, 2021. (Photo: Ali Najafi/AFP)

Iraq

Majority of latest coronavirus cases in Iraq are from unvaccinated citizens, health spokesperson warns

Photo: Archive

Kurdistan

KRG approves COVID-19 booster shots for adults amid Omicron surge

A health care worker tests a suspected COVID-19 patient in the Kurdistan Region's Sulaimani province. (Photo: Shwan Mohamad/AFP)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region ramps up daily testing for COVID-19

A health care worker administer COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation centre in Erbil, August 7, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region authorizes COVID-19 booster shots as infections surge

The 117-pallet consignment contains a variety of emergency medical devices. (Photo: WHO)

Kurdistan

WHO hands 20 tons of medical supplies to KRG

Iraqi doctors stick labels on locally made testing components for COVID-19 in Basra, Iraq, March 29, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS / Essam Al-Sudani)

Iraq

Iraq warns most patients hospitalized for COVID-19 are 'unvaccinated'

Government hospital for treating COVID-19 patients in the Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region Health Ministry lowers price of COVID-19 tests

Kurdistan Region Minister of Health Saman Barzanji being interviewed by Kurdistan 24. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

‘Over two million vaccine doses administered in Kurdistan Region’: Health Minister

A Kurdish medic brings an oxygen bottle to a COVID-19 patient at a hospital in the Kurdistan Region's Duhok province, July 27, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan sees uptick in COVID-19 cases amid Omicron surge

Displaced persons in Iraq being taking PCR tests for COVID-19 in an IDP camp near Baghdad. (Photo: UNHCR)

Iraq

Iraqi health ministry warns about rapid spread of omicron

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan PM ‘concerned’ about reports of Omicron cases in Duhok

A nurse holds a used vial of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in the Kindi Hospital in Iraq's capital Baghdad, April 14, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)

Kurdistan

England to recognize Kurdistan Region vaccine pass on Jan. 10

A medic analyses samples from COVID-19 patients at a hospital in the Kurdistan Region’s northern city of Duhok, July 27, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region records first five confirmed omicron cases: Health ministry