Iraq official says little people in 'denial' are dying of Covid-19
11 June, 2020
Younger Iraqis have already been dying of the brand new coronavirus because they are in "denial" about being infected, a great Iraqi health ministry spokesman has said.
Saif Badr said on Tuesday that at the beginning of the pandemic most deaths in Iraq were among older people with chronic diseases.
“The main reason for the deaths among younger age ranges has been denial rather than seeing the physician till later on stages,” Mr Badr said.
The spokesman did not provide any data but said Iraq “is still in the coronavirus danger zone”.
Mr Badr designated two key Shiite slums on Baghdad, Sadr Metropolis and Al Hurriya, for holding mass weddings, funerals and wakes, together with clan-related celebrations, despite a strict curfew in the administrative centre.
He said lots of the cases the authorities recorded found in Iraq were due to “touching” those infected or perhaps catching the coronavirus by moving into a household where there has been a prior infection.
Iraqi officials have warned repeatedly during the last month that insufficient compliance with health methods is widespread. Dismissing the threat, they explained, would bring about massive failure of work to support the pandemic in Iraq.
The latest government data out of this week puts the amount of infections in the united states at 14,268, with 392 deaths.
But the official data is widely thought to be under-representing the volume of infections and fatalities from the coronavirus in Iraq.
Source: www.thenational.ae
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