ERBIL - The Kurdistan Region's Health Ministry on Wednesday reported 570 new infections of the coronavirus.
The ministry explained in a statement that 7,774 individuals took tests for COVID-19 within the previous, adding that 778 patients were also discharged from hospital.
The pandemic also claimed lives of eight other people, raising the death toll to 4,339.
The new reports took the coronavirus tally to 174,881, from which 162,674 people have recovered while 7,868 cases remaining active.
The coronavirus situation in the Kurdistan Region is improving and thousands of citizens have received the first dose of vaccines.