Iraqi ulama dies from Covid-19
Iraqi health officials checking the temperature of people travelling to Iraqi Kurdistan. – EPA pic, March 4, 2020.
IRAQ said a 70-year-old ulama died today from the novel coronavirus, the first death from the outbreak in a country where 31 people have been infected. The Iraqi preacher had been quarantined in the northeastern city of Sulaimaniyah before his death, a spokesman for the Kurdish autonomous region’s health authority said.
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