Statistics of the Spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iraq: Total Cases Until April 2022
Summary
COVID-19 is a global pandemic that has swept and controlled all world countries with its rapid spread and power in eliminating healthy people. At present, patients who suffer from acute respiratory symptoms and symptoms such as coughing, fever and shortness of breath are still attending hospitals and health centres for care by healthcare workers. In general, the pandemic is dangerous, although it reduced its effect in the first period of 2022 and the frequent reception of necessary vaccinations, as well as the isolation and quarantine measures taken by the countries of the world to avoid a large number of infections with the disease, but it is still dangerous and deadly. In this article, the number of infected cases, recoveries, deaths, and the number of people who received vaccinations in Iraq from the beginning of the pandemic until April 6, 2022, will be highlighted. All data for this article are collected from Google and the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).
Introduction
COVID-19 is an infectious disease of the coronavirus strain known as (SARS-CoV-2), which causes the severe acute respiratory syndrome. This virus is a single-stranded, positive-sense, coiled-up strain of RNA that infects and kills humans. It is the same SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV but genetically different, unknown, and was spread from a seafood market (a wholesale market for fish and livestock that sells other animal species) in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in the China market. This disease is transmitted by droplets emitted from coughing, sneezing and contact with surfaces the patient touches (eyes, mouth, nasal mucosa with hands). The World Health Organization first reported cases of pervasive pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31, 2019. After that, the virus began to affect the world’s population on a large scale. The World Health Organization declared this virus a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. As of the end of April 2020, nearly 3.5 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and almost 250,000 people have died. Most severe cases (about 15% of affected patients) present initially with single organ involvement (e.g., respiratory failure), and some progress to systemic disease and multiorgan failure. CCTV News Channel broadcasting in China reported that an expert group detected a new type of coronavirus (CoV) in the laboratory as of 21:00 on January 7, 2020. On January 12, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) tentatively named the newly discovered coronavirus “2019-nCoV”. At that time, the study and research on this disease and the study of its composition and genetic development within the virus began. Where scientific hypotheses and analyses mount rapidly and information changes quickly, content and quality differences in studies can also cause misinformation about the virus to be spread. It is very complicated, and the world needs sufficient information about how to control it. The injuries are continuous, and many cases are diagnosed day after day without stopping.
Total Cases
In this section, statistics are presented about the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq by looking at the total infections, the number of deaths, the number of people who recovered from the disease, and the number of people who received vaccinations. Table 1 exhibits all the statistics collected from the beginning of the first infection until April 6, 2022 [link].
Table 1. Covid-19 statistics in Iraq
