Shafaq News / Kurdistan Region registered on Thursday morning, a new death from Covid-19 virus for a patient in Sulaymaniyah.

This is the second death in Sulaimaniyah within a few hours, after an Arab man in his 70s died before midnight yesterday as another man also in his 70s died early morning due to Covid-19 pandemic, a health source told Shafaq News Agency.

Since the outbreak of the virus last March in Kurdistan Region, Sulaimaniyah has recorded 1036 confirmed cases, 246 patients have recovered and the number of deaths to reached 28 cases.