COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Kurdistan Region |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Arrival date | 1 March 2020 (4 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 230,263 |
Recovered | 198,457 |
Deaths | 4,770 |
Government website | |
GOV.KRD |
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The COVID-19 disease was first confirmed to have reached the Kurdistan Region, an autonomous region of Iraq, on 1 March 2020.
On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019. [1] [2]
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, [3] [4] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. [5] [3]
On 1 March, the first case in the Kurdistan Region was confirmed. [6]
On 5 August, the Kurdistan Region reached a total of 15,577 COVID-19 cases. [7]
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