Health

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

The rate of infection increased from 2.2 to 10 percent in Erbil, which according to health standards should not exceed 5 percent. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Health authorities escalate their warnings as coronavirus crosses a new threshold in Kurdistan

The first doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Kurdistan Region on March 26, 2021. (Photo: Renas A. Saeed / Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region receives first doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

The first doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Iraq on March 25, 2021. (Photo: WHO Iraq/Twitter)

Iraq

Iraq receives first AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine delivery amid jab’s controversy

The World Health Organization donated $100,000 worth of PCR test kits and other COVID-19 supplies to the Kurdistan Region in March 2021. (Photo: WHO / Twitter)

Kurdistan

WHO provides Kurdistan Region with $100k in COVID-19 testing tools

Mask-clad students gather in the courtyard of their school in the northeastern city of Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region. Feb. 7, 2021. (Photo: Shwan Mohammed / AFP)

Kurdistan

Most Kurdistan Region students to remain home after Newroz break due to COVID-19 fears