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Baghdad: The Iraqi Health Ministry declared a new wave of COVID-19 infections in the country, with 515 new cases reported in the past 24 hours. more
Iraq: UN health agency helps beat ‘latest bottleneck’ in COVID-19 battle

New York : With a global shortage of supplies and equipment to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the UN health agency has assisted in successfully producing urgently needed laborator ...

Iraq confirms 8 new cases of COVID-19

Baghdad/Xinhua/UNI: Iraqi Health Ministry on Saturday announced eight new cases of COVID-19, bringing the number of the confirmed cases to 54 in the country, of whom four have died.

Iraq confirms 5 new cases of COVID-19

Baghdad/Xinhua: The Iraqi Health Ministry on Tuesday announced five more cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 31.

Iraq announces new case of COVID-19

Baghdad/Xinhua: Iraq announced a new case of novel coronavirus disease in the country's capital Baghdad on Thursday, bringing the total number in Iraq to six.

2 die of swine flu in Iraq

Baghdad/Xinhua: Two people died of swine flu, also known as influenza A/H1N1, and eight cases others were confirmed infected in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a medical source ...

Funding shortfalls threaten health services for a million vulnerable Iraqis, says UN health agency

New York: Almost one million vulnerable Iraqis will have to go without basic medicines and other life-saving healthcare if funding is not found to save critical health facilities, the Uni ...

Iraq: WHO mobilizes immunization campaign to help control cholera outbreak

New York, Nov 4 (JEN): The World Health Organization (WHO) has mobilized 510,000 dozes of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) to be administered to an estimated 250,000 displaced persons in Iraq, in ...

Iraq: Millions left in need after funding shortage forces WHO to cut services

New York, Aug 5 (JEN): The United Nations health agency was forced to suspend 84 per cent of frontline programmes in 10 governorates in Iraq in July due to insufficient funding, leaving almo ...

Iraq: UN health agency seeks $60 million to keep critical health centres open in conflict areas

New York, June 24 (JEN) With temperatures soaring to over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in some parts of Iraq and the number of people fleeing violence topping 3 million, the World Health Organizat ...