COVID-19: Kurdistan Region reports lowest daily death in months

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Region’s health authorities recorded only three deaths in the past 24 hours, marking the lowest daily death toll as a result of coronavirus complications in months.

In its daily statement on COVID-19 figures, the regional health ministry said it had completed 2,903 tests across the autonomous region in the past day, 222 of which returned positive.

The official statement also noted that there had been three deaths during the same period: two in Sulaimani, and one in Duhok.

There have now been over 100,719 confirmed infections in the Kurdistan Region, 3,303 of them fatal, according to ministry data.

So far, around 65,283 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.

Tuesday’s figures indicate a decrease compared to those in recent months when daily infections reached as high as over 1,000.

As winter approaches the Kurdistan Region, health officials repeatedly warn residents to adhere strictly to precautionary measures as infections from both 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