Source::Xinhuanet
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The Iraqi parliamentary health committee on Thursday proposed gradually easing the COVID-19 restrictions and lifting the current partial curfew in stages.
Jawad al-Musawi, a member of the parliamentary health committee, told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) that "the committee proposed to the Higher Committee for Health and National Safety to follow up the daily numbers of COVID-19 infections within 10 days before deciding to lift the partial curfew in two stages according to the epidemiological situation."
Under the recommendation, the first stage is to reduce the hours of the partial curfew, while the second stage will see the full lifting of the curfew if the daily COVID-19 infections drop to between 1,000 and 2,000 within 10 days. The Iraqi Ministry of Health reported 4,611 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, raising the nationwide caseload to 1,186,309.
The ministry also confirmed 22 new deaths, bringing the death toll from the virus to 16,289, while the total recoveries in Iraq climbed by 4,059 to 1,098,199. It also said 22,972 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 during the past 24 hours across the country, bringing the total number of doses administered in Iraq to 573,659.
Iraq has been pushing forward its vaccination drive since the drug authority approved the emergency use of China's Sinopharm vaccine and other COVID-19 vaccines.
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