Shafaq News/ Iraq registered, on Tuesday 879 new cases to take its total to 616259, the health ministry said.

It reported 8 fatalities to take its coronavirus death toll to 13000.

It also reported 1575 recoveries to take its total to 586327 (95.1%).

The COVID-19 intensive care patients count to 154.

Baghdad/Karkh recorded the highest number of infections (217).

So far, the ministry of health and environment conducted 5484106 tests in all governorates.