Shafaq News/ MP Basma Muhammad Bassim sent a formal request to the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, seeking to ease the lockdown measures in the country.

In an application appended to her signature, Muhammad sought to "partially make the curfew seven days a week and provide cash allocations to support poor families on curfew days."

She emphasized that the comprehensive lockdown has inflicted the Iraqi families in need.