Iraqi Health Ministry urges citizens to get vaccinated to ease preventative measures

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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Iraqi Ministry of Health once again urged citizens to get vaccinated against COVID-19 on Wednesday to reduce preventative measures against the contagion in the country.

In the past 24 hours, the Iraqi health ministry recorded 1,736 new COVID-19 infections and 20 deaths.

In a statement, the ministry pointed out that some countries have eased preventive measures in public places and travel restrictions after achieving high rates of public vaccination.

Iraq can also ease such measures when enough citizens are vaccinated, it added.

The ministry also renewed its call on citizens to "go to the health centers all over Iraq to receive the vaccine to achieve the required percentage so that we can lift the preventive measures."

The statement pointed out that most of those who have recently been infected "are not vaccinated, and the monitoring teams of the Ministry have not recorded any serious complications resulting from vaccinated patients over the past period and so far."

Out of a total population of 40 million people, about 10 million Iraqis have been vaccinated throughout Iraq.

The total number of infections in the country has reached 2,296,665, including 24,917 deaths.