On Saturday, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi warned of the seriousness of the health situation in Iraq as a result of the Corona pandemic, stressing the need to adhere to safety procedures.

Al-Kazemi's speech came during his inspection of a number of school examination committees in the capital, Baghdad, on the first day of the ministerial exams for the finished preparatory classes (the baccalaureate).

The daily infections with the Corona virus had risen in Iraq during the past weeks, and recorded unprecedented numbers, with the country entering the third wave of the outbreak.

The daily cases in the country range between 6 and 12 thousand.

The total number of Corona virus infections in Iraq is 1,809,376, including 19,958 deaths, and 1,632 and 646 cases of recovery, while about 2.8 million people received anti-virus vaccines out of a total population of 40 million.

Iraq has a limited and dilapidated infrastructure in the health sector, like most government service sectors, due to decades of successive wars and rampant corruption in the country, which raises fears of the collapse of the health system in the event of escalating infections with the virus.