The number of deaths from the Coronavirus disease Covid-19 since the beginning of this year in Kirkuk province has reached 654 which is less compared to 786 deaths in 2020, amid confirmations by local health officials that no cases of Omicron new viariant detected.
On December 29, Kirkuk Health Department presented Covid-19 statistics for 2021, which indicated that 43,550 cases of positive cases were recorded, including 654 deaths from complications of infection with the virus.
This comes while the number of infections in 2020 reached more than 31,234 cases including 786 deaths from the virus.
Since the emergence of the Corona epidemic so far, more than 76,000 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in Kirkuk, and 1440 people have died from the virus.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Most people who fall sick with COVID-19 will experience mild to moderate symptoms and recover without special treatment. However, some will become seriously ill and require medical attention.
Kirkuk Health Director General Nabil Hamdi Bushnaq said during the press conference devoted to presenting the 2021 statistics and attended by the (KirkukNow) reporter, "So far, no cases of infection with the "Omicron" mutant of the Corona virus have been recorded in Kirkuk and Iraq."
Global health studies and research indicate that the new mutated Corona virus spreads faster than the strains that preceded it.
As the turnout is getting higher day after day for Covid-19 vaccination, about 8,5 million Iraqis received coronavirus vaccines, equivalent to 20,5% of the total population, according to the latest statistics of the Iraqi ministry of health.
As of December 27, about 344,000 people out of a total of 1,7 million residents of Kirkuk province had received coronavirus vaccines, which represents 20%, compared to 17.8% in November and 14% in October.
Video: Kirkuk Health Department reveals the statistics for the year 2021
According to the statistics of the Kirkuk Health Department for the year 2021, the number of births reached 33,690, while the number of births in 2020 was more than 38,000.
In the past eleven months, 1,950 deaths were recorded in Kirkuk while the deaths in 2020 were 3,476.
Sabah Namiq, Director of the Public Health Department in the Kirkuk Health Department, stressed during the press conference the need to receive anti-Coronavirus vaccines.
"No one is allowed to enter government institutions and departments without a vaccination card or a PCR test.” Namiq stressed that any department that does not comply with the decision will be held responsible.
The administration of Kirkuk, based on the decision of the Iraqi Council of Ministers, stipulated civil servants to take the Corona vaccine as a procedure to allow them to work, while it stressed paperwork for visitors should not be conducted unless they have a vaccination card or a Corona negative test.
343,604 people in Kirkuk received the first dose of the Corona vaccine, which is equivalent to 20% of the residents while those who received both doses are 220,300 people, only 13%.
According to the statistics of the Kirkuk Health Department, the total number of surgeries performed in all the governorate’s hospitals amounted to 35,341 surgeries, while the number of hospital visits, health centers, advisory and outpatient clinics reached 1,340,121 cases, and 108 people are currently hospitalized.
The oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 238 kilometers north of Baghdad, is an ethnically mixed province for 1.7 million Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen, Muslims, Christians and Kaka'is. It has long been at the center of disputes between Baghdad and the Erbil.
