ERBIL - The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Friday reported more than 700 new cases of coronavirus.
A total of 706 infections and 521 recoveries of COVID-19 have been recorded across Kurdistan Region within the past 24 hours, the health ministry said in a statement.
The death toll, in the meantime, spiked to 1,617 after 25 other people lost their lives on Friday.
The Kurdistan Region has so far registered a total of 44,695 cases, out of which 28,674 patients have been discharged from the hospital and recovered from the novel virus.