Kurdistan Region records highest daily COVID-19 infections: over 1000 cases

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Health Ministry of the autonomous Kurdistan Region on Monday registered over 1000 new coronavirus cases over the previous 24 hours. That represents the highest figure recorded in the Kurdistan Region since the onset of the pandemic.

The latest ministry statement said health workers across the region had conducted 6,670 tests during the past 24 hours, raising the total number of such tests to 571,235 since the outbreak began in the Kurdistan Region in early March. 

Out of the tests conducted in the past 24 hours, the region recorded 1,032 infections. The total number of infections has reached 62,735.

The ministry also recorded 26 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of deaths from the virus to 2,187.

Health officials say that over 37,800 people have recovered from the highly contagious disease. However, it is important to note that the classification of “recovery” indicates that a patient is no longer being actively treated by health professionals, not that they have fully recovered.

Increasingly, medical experts recognize that COVID-19 symptoms, some of which are quite serious, often continue long after an individual’s formal recovery and that various other symptoms, such as significant lung damage, could be permanent.

Health Ministry concerned

Shortly before publishing its daily coronavirus figures, the Health Ministry issued a statement that expressed its concern about the lack of public adherence to the mandated precautionary measures to mitigate further transmission of COVID-19.

“Due to non-adherence to measures and health advice,” the number of infections are rising on a daily basis, the ministry said on its official Facebook page.

Editing by Laurie Mylroie