Health

A member of the Iraqi security forces enforce COVID-19 lockdown in Baghdad, May 31, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)

Iraq

Iraqi restauranteurs pay bribes to dodge virus curfew

Photo: Archive

Iraq

Iraq again records over 6,000 new COVID-19 cases

Iraqi officials have often complained about the public's lack of commitment to health guidelines, including the wearing of masks. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

COVID-19: Iraq announces third, 'more deadly' wave of pandemic

Former drug addict Dilgash Shukri. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Former drug addict overcomes addiction, inspires others to follow in Kurdistan Region

A health worker with the Emirati Red Crescent gives a shot of the Covid-19 vaccine at a centre for Iraqis displaced by conflict, in the Debaga camp east of Kurdish capital Erbil, May 25, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)

Kurdistan

UAE Red Crescent rolls out second dose of COVID vaccine to refugees in Kurdistan Region

Jamila Qadir holds her newly-adopted daughter in the garden of her Erbil home. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Goran Sabah Ghafour)

Kurdistan

Adoption on the rise in Kurdistan Region

Kurdish-owned Medical World Company takes part in Dubai's Arab Health 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Erbil-based company represents Kurdistan at international healthcare exhibition in Dubai

Iraqi health authorities receive the first delivery of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines at Baghdad International Airport, April 11, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi Health Ministry)

Iraq

Iraq to receive more COVID-19 vaccines from US supply

Hiwa Cancer Hospital in Slulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan. (Photo: Kurdistan-Save the Children)

Kurdistan

KRG allocates 1.6 billion dinars per month to hospitals treating cancer patients

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

Over 200k people in Kurdistan Region have received at least first COVID-19 vaccine dose

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

Kurdistan

Fully vaccinated travelers to Kurdistan Region no longer need COVID-19 test on arrival

A blood donor lays back on a medical bed as blood is withdrawn as part of the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil campaign marking World Blood Donor Day, June 14, 2021. (Photo: Renas Ali/Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Erbil launches mobile donation campaign marking World Blood Donor Day

COVID-19 vaccination center in Kurdistan Region’s Erbil city. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

KRG Health Minister: COVID-19 herd immunity requires 80 percent of public to be vaccinated

Pilgrims walk around the Kabba at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (Photo: Saudi Ministry of Media)

Middle East

Saudi Arabia says hajj to be limited to 60,000 in kingdom

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)

World

G-7 nations gather to pledge 1 billion vaccine doses for world

A water tanker bearing the placard "clean water" in the Kurdistan Region's Sulaimani province, June 9, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Sulaimani warns of surge in waterborne illness as region feels drought effects