Health

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

Security forces in the Kurdistan Region's Erbil province enforce COVID-19 lockdown, March 2020. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region halts travel with federal provinces amid rising COVID-19 infections

The total number of coronavirus infections in the Kurdistan Region reached 125,146, including 3,715 deaths. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region reports over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases

Iraq's health minister is shown medical equipment by Lebanese health authorities, April 3, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi Health Ministry/Social Media)

Iraq

Lebanon to swap medical expertise for Iraqi oil

60 to 100 individuals will be vaccinated on daily basis. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region launches online COVID-19 vaccine registration in Erbil

Syrians infected with Covid-19 receive treatment at Mouwasat Hospital in the capital Damascus, on March 31, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara / AFP)

Syria

Covid overwhelms ICUs in Syrian capital

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

Kurdistan

KRG lowers COVID-19 test prices amid rising infections

Jalil Khayat mosque in Kurdistan Region’s Erbil. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region to close places of worship to curb spread of COVID-19

A Yemeni man wearing a protective gear disinfects a hospital ward hosting Covid-19 patients in Yemen's third city of Taez on March 30, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Basha / AFP)

Middle East

Yemen receives first coronavirus vaccines: UN

Saman Barznji, Kurdistan Regional Government’s Minister of Health during the press conference, March 30, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Iraq

Kurdistan bans movement with the rest of Iraq three days a week, halts government work on Thursdays

KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani during a ministerial meeting in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil, Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Amid rising COVID19 infections, PM Barzani warns of ‘complacency or politics’

COVID-19 treatment center in Kurdistan Region’s Erbil. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan reports highest daily COVID-19 infections in 2021