COVID-19: Kurdistan's Duhok sees uptick in fatalities; KRG reports 516 cases
Duhok province has recently recorded an uptick in the number of daily cases.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Ministry of Health in the Kurdistan Region on Sunday announced 516 new cases of coronavirus and 21 deaths over the past 24 hours.
The region's health ministry said that it had conducted 4,864 tests in the last 24 hours, making for a total of 452,141 tests carried out since the beginning of the outbreak in the autonomous region.
According to the health figures, there have been nearly 46,000 virus cases across the Kurdistan Region, including about 30,000 recoveries and 1,671 deaths.
Duhok Fatalities Rise
According to the health directorate of Duhok province, there has been a notable increase in the rate of fatalities due to the disease in the province. Duhok has also continued to record a high number of daily infections, often larger than the rest of the Kurdistan Region's provinces.
The Duhok Health Director, Nizar Esmat, said in a press conference on Sunday that "the death rate in Duhok has increased to 2 percent" due to "an increase in the number of infections recently throughout the province, in addition to a delay in receiving treatment."
The press briefing came after a meeting among top provincial health officials.
Esmat also explained that the provincial government would dedicate twenty more intensive care rooms for coronavirus patients and send more medical professionals to Duhok's Azadi Hospital to treat the disease.
The health official also noted that the governor of Duhok is encouraging the production of supplemental oxygen.
So far, 568 doctors and health workers have been infected with coronavirus in Duhok, four of whom have died, including a doctor.
Editing by Khrush Najari