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)
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)
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)
Iraqi police officers stop a vehicle at a checkpoint in the Karrada district of central Baghdad as they enforce a curfew imposed to curb spiking coronavirus cases. (Photo: AFP/Sabah Arar)
A healthcare worker in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil prepares to give an injection to a COVID-19 patient, Nov. 3, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Safen Hamed)
Health workers in a COVID-19 treatment center in Duhok province begin carrying out the Kurdistan Region's vaccination program, March 6, 2021. (Photo: Masoud Mohammed)
Goran Osman Aziz, health worker in Erbil, became the first person to receive the Sinopharm vaccine, March, 4, 2021. (Photo: Rebaz Siyan / Kurdistan 24)
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