Iraqi Health Ministry warns of severe wave of corona
Shafaq News / The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said that coexistence with the emerging corona virus is "inevitably coming," warning at the same time of an epidemic more severe than the current, bringing the number of cases of corona in Iraq to thousands per day during the current week.
The total lockdown was imposed for two weeks starting from Eid Al-Fitr and the current week, given that the period of incubation of Corona is two weeks and it is enough to find the affected cases through field tests, The semi-official Al-Sabah newspaper quoted in its Tuesday edition, the public health official in the Rusafa Health Department, Dr. Ali Taher as saying
Taher expected that the recorded infections would reach 1000 cases per day due to field survey campaigns in the endemic areas in the capital and the emergence of many hidden cases, as well as an increase tests ability in the laboratories that numbered more than 20 in Baghdad and the provinces, and to expand the quarantine and isolation halls in most hospitals.
He affirmed that the infrastructure of the ministry and all health institutions is ready to receive all cases, indicating that the clinical capacity of all Al-Rusafa hospitals has exceeded more than 7,000 beds, however the total infections have now exceeded more than 6000 cases since the beginning of the crisis until now due to the weak health awareness of citizens and the lack of their commitment to the preventive instructions imposed by the crisis cell.
He added by saying that despite the continuous jump for more than a week with the number of infections, we did not enter the risk stage, because the death rate is small, it reached more than 200 cases only, which amounts to 3% of the total infections, and most of the deaths were previously infected with cancer or chronic diseases, meaning that the criterion of severity depends on the number of deaths, and that the recovery rate reached 50%, stressing that coexistence with Corona virus is inevitably coming and the seriousness of the epidemic continues for an unknown period until now.
