Baghdad The Ministry of Health confirmed: “The stability of the daily epidemiological situation of new infections is evidence of Iraq’s exit from the peak of the third wave of the Coronavirus pandemic.

A member of the media medical team of the Ministry of Health, Ruba Falah Hassan, stated, in a statement to the Iraqi National News Agency (NINA), that resorting to the preventive curfew again is within the prerogatives of the Supreme Committee for National Health and Safety, but in light of the number of infections, we do not need the curfew now.

She added, “We have passed the peak of the third wave, but there are still daily infections, albeit less than before,” warning: “Lack in receiving the vaccine or not adhering to preventive measures, may lead the country to enter another new wave of the virus that is not only a fourth, rather, it could be more than one wave as a result of the mutations that the virus undergoes from time to time, coinciding with the advent of the winter season, when respiratory and transmission diseases and other epidemic diseases are active.”

She explained that “the Coronavirus continues in all seasons in exchange for the extent of citizens’ commitment to preventive measures to reduce the number of infections and maintain the stability of the epidemiological situation, as well as the decrease in the number of infected people.”

Regarding the increase in the number of vaccine recipients, a member of the media team of the Ministry of Health confirmed: “Iraq has currently reached more than 4 million vaccine recipients, which is a good indication that records a relative increase in the number of vaccine recipients compared to the previous period.”

She added, “This number did not record any side complications or medical risks for the vaccinators, which means the effectiveness of the vaccines used by Iraq, just like other countries, and they are vaccines of global origin that the citizen can choose which one to receive.”

She reiterated the Ministry of Health’s continued provision of large doses of vaccines that citizens prefer to receive, expressing her hope that the number of vaccine recipients will increase during the coming period, the epidemic will recede, and the shortest possible time to achieve societal immunity “herd immunity”.

And about the possibility of resorting to the preventive curfew again, Falah confirmed that “such decisions are within the powers of the Supreme Committee for National Health and Safety and what it deems appropriate regarding the health situation, but in light of the few infections, we do not need the curfew now.”

She clarified that “the decisions are not fixed and can change according to the developments of the daily epidemiological situation, and any developments that arise in respect of which the Supreme Committee can take decisions that are more stringent than the current decisions.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency