COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region
| 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, 3 months, 2 weeks and 3 days) |
| Confirmed cases | 230,263 |
| Recovered | 198,457 |
Deaths | 4,770 |
| Government website | |
| GOV.KRD | |
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The COVID-19 disease was first confirmed to have reached the Kurdistan Region, an autonomous region of Iraq, on 1 March 2020.