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Medical staff in protective gear work at a hospital in Erbil. Photo: Bilind T. Abdullah / Rudaw
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Sulaimani province health authorities on Saturday afternoon confirmed the death of a 37-year-old man who had contracted COVID-19 – the Kurdistan Region's sixth recorded death from the virus.
The man, who had been hospitalised due to the severity of his symptoms, died earlier on Saturday, Sulaimani Health Directorate spokesperson Dr. Yad Naqshbandi told Rudaw.
"He did not have any underlying health conditions. He was solely a coronavirus patient," Naqshbandi said.
He became the fifth person from Sulaimani province to have died after contracting the virus, the only other Kurdistan Region death having been recorded in Erbil on April 28.
Incidences of coronavirus infection are continuing to show a worrying resurgence, with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) health ministry announcing 23 new cases in Sulaimani province on Saturday night. So far, 606 cases of COVID-19 have been recorded across the Kurdistan Region, with 409 resulting in recovery and six deaths; 191 cases remain active.
Naqshbandi warned that some who have contracted COVID-19 in Sulaimani are in a serious condition, as "eight to nine" of the province's patients "sometimes need to be put on ventilators."
The Kurdistan Region began implementing measures to curb the spread of the virus in late February, resorting to partial and complete lockdowns in March.
Lockdown measures were gradually lifted as rates of infection slowed, allowing shops, mosques and churches to reopen their doors and non-essential traffic to run through the Region's roads – though authorities have called on the public to adhere to their end of pandemic-induced regulations.
But with cases of the virus growing since the beginning of May, the KRG imposed a full, 72-hour lockdown across the Kurdistan Region on the three days of Eid al-Fitr last week. The government renewed a ban on travel between provinces in the Kurdistan Region until June 16, according to an order issued on Wednesday.
Amid the outbreak's surge, the prime minister of the Kurdistan Region issued a strongly worded statement Friday morning to warn that the public's decreasing commitment to the government's health instructions has led to the disease "swiftly spreading."
"Unfortunately, there has recently been very little commitment to the [health] instructions," Barzani added.
Updated 9:52 pm
The man, who had been hospitalised due to the severity of his symptoms, died earlier on Saturday, Sulaimani Health Directorate spokesperson Dr. Yad Naqshbandi told Rudaw.
"He did not have any underlying health conditions. He was solely a coronavirus patient," Naqshbandi said.
He became the fifth person from Sulaimani province to have died after contracting the virus, the only other Kurdistan Region death having been recorded in Erbil on April 28.
Incidences of coronavirus infection are continuing to show a worrying resurgence, with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) health ministry announcing 23 new cases in Sulaimani province on Saturday night. So far, 606 cases of COVID-19 have been recorded across the Kurdistan Region, with 409 resulting in recovery and six deaths; 191 cases remain active.
Naqshbandi warned that some who have contracted COVID-19 in Sulaimani are in a serious condition, as "eight to nine" of the province's patients "sometimes need to be put on ventilators."
The Kurdistan Region began implementing measures to curb the spread of the virus in late February, resorting to partial and complete lockdowns in March.
Lockdown measures were gradually lifted as rates of infection slowed, allowing shops, mosques and churches to reopen their doors and non-essential traffic to run through the Region's roads – though authorities have called on the public to adhere to their end of pandemic-induced regulations.
But with cases of the virus growing since the beginning of May, the KRG imposed a full, 72-hour lockdown across the Kurdistan Region on the three days of Eid al-Fitr last week. The government renewed a ban on travel between provinces in the Kurdistan Region until June 16, according to an order issued on Wednesday.
Amid the outbreak's surge, the prime minister of the Kurdistan Region issued a strongly worded statement Friday morning to warn that the public's decreasing commitment to the government's health instructions has led to the disease "swiftly spreading."
"Unfortunately, there has recently been very little commitment to the [health] instructions," Barzani added.
Updated 9:52 pm
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