Health

A health worker in a Kurdistan Region COVID-19 treatment center. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

COVID-19: Kurdistan PM urges public to get vaccinated as Iraq’s total infections top 1 million

The AstraZeneca vaccine packages, March 26, 2021. (Photo: Renas A. Saeed / Kurdistan 24)

Syria

Syria's Idlib to get first batch of COVID-19 vaccines

Discarded plastic syringes at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, April 14, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)

Kurdistan

COVID in Kurdistan: from vaccine hesitancy to vaccine rush

People gather at the site of the train accident in Qalyubia province, north of Cairo. (Photo: Reuters)

Middle East

Kurdistan Prime Minister extends condolences to families of victims of train accident in Egypt

Vaccination underway in the Kurdistan Region’s capital Erbil in April 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

New batches of coronavirus vaccine to arrive in Kurdistan Region within days

JIYAN Center, an 80-bed clinic set up to treat coronavirus cases, in Qamishli city, Rojava, northeast Syria, April 16, 2021. (Photo: Hisham Arafat)

Syria

UK coronavirus variant cases soar in northeast Syria; vaccine yet to arrive

Ano Jawhar Abdulmaseeh Abdoka, KRG Minister for Transportation and Communications, received his COVID-19 vaccine in Erbil on April 12, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region rolls out COVID-19 vaccination program

A healthcare worker checks the temperature of a woman arriving by bus to Rojava from the Kurdistan Region to test for coronavirus, Feb. 26, 2020 (Photo: AFP/Delil Souleiman)

Syria

Kurds impose 10-day curfew in NE Syria amid coronavirus wave

Cars fill the streets of central Baghdad ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, April 12, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Iraq

COVID-19: Iraq imposes partial curfew through Ramadan, cuts 1 hour from workday

More than 2,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Kurdistan Region on April 11, 2021. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

First Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive in Kurdistan Region, new batch of Sinopharm on the way

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Spokesperson Jutyar Adil speaks to reporters at a press conference in Erbil, April 11, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

COVID-19: KRG cancels 'Thursday holiday,' continues travel ban to Iraqi provinces outside Kurdistan

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

Kurdistan

Nearly 50,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive in Iraq

An Iraqi man is vaccinated against Covid-19 with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine at a private nursing home in Baghdad, March 2, 2021. (Photo: Sabah Arar / AFP)

Iraq

Iraq mandates vaccine card for travelers, waiters, health care workers

An Iraqi medical worker prepares a shot of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine to administer to health personnel, at a clinic in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)

Iraq

Iraq blames public for new virus record, urges vaccinations

Security forces enforce a coronavirus curfew in the Kurdistan Region's capital of Erbil. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

COVID-19: After spike in new cases, Kurdistan announces partial curfew in all 4 provinces

The highest daily recorded numbers in Iraq were more than 6000 infections in the past few days. (Photo: Reuters)

Iraq

Iraq records highest daily COVID-19 infection toll since pandemic’s outbreak