Shafaq News / The Iraqi Ministry of Health and environment registered 26 fatalities, 5,170 new cases, and 3,057 recoveries of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
The total number of cases has reached 745,642, including 647, 345 recoveries and 13,618 fatalities.
Amid the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the Country, the Government imposed on February 15 a partial and total lockdown, closed public sites, prohibited gatherings, and shifted to online learning in schools and universities instead of on-premises attendance.
This week on Monday, The Iraqi government decided to extend the nationwide curfew intended to rein the spread of COVID-19 through March 22; a statement cited the Supreme Commission for National Safety said.