Shafaq News / The Ministry of Health in Kurdistan Region announced that intensive care units in hospitals are currently full with COVID-19 patients.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Aso Hawizi, said in a press conference held on the sidelines of the ministry receiving medical equipment from the Japanese company "JICA", "Unfortunately, we are going through very, very dangerous conditions," noting, "the intensive care units in the region are no longer able to receive patients."

Hawizi added that the COVID-19 cases, fatalities, and critical cases are surging in the Region, which prompted the authorities to take strict preventive measures.