COVID-19 claims 67 lives in Iraq, sickens 6,121 others

August 20, 2021 / 9:33 PM

Iraqi health workers prepare doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at al-Salam hospital in the northern city of Mosul

Sharjah 24 – KUNA: The Iraqi Ministry of Health recorded on Friday 67 additional COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, with 6,121 new cases.

The Iraqi capital of Baghdad had the most cases with 1,350 patients, then Basra governorate with 808 sickened, followed by Sulaimania governorate with 663 cases.

Total cases increased to 1,815,497 cases of which 20,025 died, nevertheless 1,641,870 patients recovered nationwide.