IRAQ:
The first confirmed case was in February 2020, by the 27 march, the
virus has been confirmed nearly in all of the country provinces, at that
time 309 patients with a positive have been identified just in Iraqi
Kurdistan region become 26% of all case, for the first time the virus
came to Iraq by a student from Iran, on 22 February 2020 who studied
Islamic in Najaf. On 13 march the Iraqi Kurdish region reported
quarantine for two days in the two largest northern Iraq cities but
after a while on 4 April KRG announce that all of cities quarantined and
declared the period of 26 February to 10 March a public holiday. Public
and private universities were closed from 29 February to 10 March. This
closure continued for the rest of the academic year and most started
online learning. On the other hand Iraqi government and KRG respectively
closed their border with Iran, after that they decided to close border
with Kuwait, and banned all flights with other countries of the word.
According to use medicine in Iraq they are going to use four re-purposed
medicines – Remdesivir, Lopinavir/Ritonavir, Interferon (β1a), and
hydroxychloroquine – are being evaluated