| COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region | |
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| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Kurdistan Region |
| First outbreak | Wuhan,Hubei,China |
| Arrival date | 1 March 2020 (5 years, 8 months and 2 weeks) |
| Confirmed cases | 230,263 |
| Recovered | 198,457 |
Deaths | 4,770 |
| Government website | |
| GOV.KRD | |
TheCOVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region is part of the ongoingworldwide pandemic ofcoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused bysevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The COVID-19 disease was first confirmed to have reached theKurdistan Region, an autonomous region ofIraq, on 1 March 2020.
On 12 January 2020, theWorld Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that anovel 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]
Thecase fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower thanSARS of 2003,[3][4] but thetransmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.[5][3]
On 1 March, the first case in the Kurdistan Region was confirmed.[6]
On 5 August, the Kurdistan Region reached a total of 15,577 COVID-19 cases.[7]
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