Iraq Reports 50 New Coronavirus Cases

Ministry of Health in Iraq registered on Tuesday 50 new coronavirus infected cases, bringing the total number of the confirmed cases to 316.

In a statement, the ministry said that thirteen cases recovered from the virus, taking the total number of recovered cases to 75.

It also reported four new deaths of coronavirus. This upped the death toll across the country to 27.

On Monday, March 23, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the COVID-19 pandemic is ‘accelerating’.

“There are more than 375,000 cases now recorded worldwide and in nearly every country, and their number is growing by the hour,” Ghebreyesus said.

It is worth mentioning that, On Wednesday, March 11, WHO declared that the coronavirus, which is spreading around the world, a “global pandemic; however it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.

According to the organization, the number of COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.

“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.

“Now, COVID-19 can be categorized as a pandemic… we have never seen a pandemic spread due to the coronavirus,” Adhanom added.