COVID-19: Kurdistan Region records over 200 new cases

The Kurdistan Region has recorded more than 200 new COVID-19 cases

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Kurdistan Region health authorities registered over 200 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours a day after total infections topped 100,000 on Saturday.

In its daily statement on COVID-19 figures, the regional health ministry said it had completed 4,030 tests across the autonomous region in the past day, 201 of which were positive.

The official statement also noted that there had been nine deaths during the same period: four in Duhok province, four in Sulaimani province, and one in Erbil.

There have now been over 100,497 confirmed infections in the Kurdistan Region, 3,300 of them fatal, according to ministry data.

So far, around 64,963 patients have recovered from the coronavirus disease.

It is important to note that a patient classified as a “recovery” means they are no longer actively treated by health professionals, not that they have fully recovered.

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

As winter approaches the Kurdistan Region, health officials repeatedly warn residents to adhere strictly to precautionary measures as infections from both the coronavirus and seasonal influenzas could co-occur, overburdening the health care system.

According to Johns Hopkins University’s database, the coronavirus has infected more than 72 million people worldwide and killed over 1.6 million. The actual figures could be dramatically higher due to insufficient testing capabilities or underreporting.

Editing by Karzan Sulaivany