COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Iraq in February 2020.

COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq
Number of confirmed cases by province as of 8th May 2020   Confirmed cases 1–9   Confirmed cases 10–49   Confirmed cases 50-99   Confirmed cases 100-199   Confirmed cases ≥200
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Iraq
First outbreak	Qom, Iran
Index case	Najaf
Arrival date	22 February 2020 – present (4 years, 9 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Confirmed cases	3,032
Active cases	918
Recovered	1,966
Deaths	115
Government website
https://www.facebook.com/MOH.GOV.IQ/

Cases

Cases have been confirmed in all 19 Iraqi Governorates as of the 27 March, with the Iraqi Kurdistan region having 309 (26%) of those cases as of 8 April.

During the pandemic, Iraq reported its first confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections on 22 February 2020 in Najaf. By April, the number of confirmed cases had passed the hundred mark in Baghdad, Basra, Sulaymaniyah, Erbil and Najaf.

Testing

As of 7 April, 28,414 tests had been done in Iraq (including the Kurdistan Region), with 1202 of them turning out positive.

Weakness

Iraq is thought to be especially vulnerable to the epidemic due to being weakened by the Iraq War and United Nations sanctions, by sectarian conflict and the rise of Islamic State over the past three decades.