Covid-19: Iraq records about 150 new cases today, still ranks the first in the Arab World

Shafaq News/ Iraq recorded 156 new cases of Covid-19 to bring its total to 2,092,312, the health ministry said.

It reported seven deaths to take its coronavirus death toll to 24,122.

It also reported 401 recoveries to take its total to 2,062,648 (98.6%).

The COVID-19 intensive care patients count to 84.

Duhok recorded the highest number of infections (33).

So far, the Ministry of Health and Environment has conducted 16,756,695 tests in all governorates.

8,431,667 people have been vaccinated so far

It is worth noting that Iraq ranks 1st in the Arab world and 25th place globally.

According to the Reuters Covid-19 tracker, five infections per 100K people were reported in the last seven days in Iraq.

Iraq has administered at least 13,928,740 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, that’s enough to have vaccinated about 17.7% of the country’s population.

COVID-19 infections are decreasing in Iraq, with 309 new infections reported on average each day. That’s 3% of the peak.