Health
State of Health Iraq announces new case of COVID-19
Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 27 Feb 2020, 02:20 am Print
Unsplash
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.
A statement by the Iraqi Health Ministry said it has detected a new case of coronavirus for an Iraqi young man who returned to Baghdad from neighboring Iran and was admitted to a hospital, where he was tested positive and was kept in quarantine in accordance with the international procedures.
Recently, the Iraqi authorities have been taking a series of precautionary measures to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus after cases of the disease were confirmed earlier in the provinces of Najaf and Kirkuk.
More Health
- Pakistan: Health department begins probing two death as deague cases rise
- WHO report shows one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics. Why is the situation alarming?
- Maldives becomes world's first nation to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B
- WHO report: 1 in 10 healthcare workers in Europe battling suicidal thoughts
- Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win Nobel Prize in Medicine. What did they discover?
