COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region
  • Kurdistan Region in dark red
  • Disputed territories controlled by the Iraqi federal government in light red
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationKurdistan Region
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China
Arrival date1 March 2020
(3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Confirmed cases230,263
Recovered198,457
Deaths
4,770
Government website
GOV.KRD

The COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The COVID-19 disease was first confirmed to have reached the Kurdistan Region, an autonomous region of Iraq, on 1 March 2020.

Background

On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.[1][2]

The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003,[3][4] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.[5][3]

Timeline

March 2020

On 1 March, the first case in the Kurdistan Region was confirmed.[6]

August 2020

On 5 August, the Kurdistan Region reached a total of 15,577 COVID-19 cases.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Elsevier. "Novel Coronavirus Information Center". Elsevier Connect. Archived from the original on 30 January 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  2. ↑ Reynolds, Matt (4 March 2020). "What is coronavirus and how close is it to becoming a pandemic?". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Crunching the numbers for coronavirus". Imperial News. 13 March 2020. Archived from the original on 19 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "High consequence infectious diseases (HCID); Guidance and information about high consequence infectious diseases and their management in England". GOV.UK. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "World Federation Of Societies of Anaesthesiologists – Coronavirus". www.wfsahq.org. Archived from the original on 12 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "First cases of coronavirus confirmed in Kurdistan Region | Rudaw.net". Archived from the original on 1 March 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  7. ↑ "Kurdistan Regional Government". 19 March 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2020.


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