Turkey sends coronavirus aid to Iraq - Al Monitor
A Turkish military jet delivered coronavirus-related aid to Iraq today. The assistance comes as Turkey continues its war against Kurdish militants in the country, despite opposition from Baghdad.
#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Iraq#Turquie#Frontière#ouverture#Aide_humanitaire#migrant#migration
▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/07/turkey-flight-coronavirus-covid-19-aid-iraq-medical.html
COVID-19: Iraq announces new increase in cases, crosses 2000 total deaths - Kurdistan 24
The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment on Wednesday announced an increase of 2,415 new coronavirus cases, a new high in the past few days. The ministry also announced another 107 fatalities, raising the national total coronavirus-related death tally to more than 2000 since the outbreak began in Iraq.
In its daily statement, the ministry mentioned that 11,378 tests had been conducted in 24 hours, making the total nearly 556,000. It also outlined the total number of infections had reached 51,524 confirmed infections, including 26,267 recoveries, 2,050 deaths, and 23,207 active cases.
Today’s figures do not include the most recent developments in the Kurdistan Region, which has its own health ministry and typically announces results later in the day. As such, Kurdistan’s figures are usually added to the following day’s national tally.
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▻https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/0a9b0ff7-b0a2-451e-aa75-aee8e0011596
Russia holds key to UN Syria aid operation - The new humanitarian
That means that all aid to the northwest is trucked in from neighbouring Turkey, by both NGOs and the UN. UN agencies have been authorised to bring aid across Syria’s borders without al-Assad’s approval since 2014 by Security Council Resolution 2165 and its latest update, numbered 2504. The resolution allows the UN to use two Turkey-Syria border crossings, Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salameh.
The resolution is set to expire on 10 July, and major powers are still hashing out the details of a possible renewal, which was discussed in the Security Council on Monday. All eyes are on Moscow, as al-Assad’s ally could effectively end UN cross-border aid with a single veto.
#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Rojava#Iraq#Syrie#Frontière#aide_internationale#Politique_internationale#ONU#migrant#migration
▻https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2020/07/01/syria-turkey-aid-un-security-council-decision
Iraq : COVID-19 Camp Vulnerability Index - OCHA
The aim of this vulnerability index is to understand the capacity of camps to deal with the impact of a COVID-19 outbreak, understanding the camp as a single system composed of sub-units. The components of the index are: exposure to risk, system vulnerabilities (population and infrastructure), capacity to cope with the event and its consequences, and finally, preparedness measures. For this purpose, databases collected between August 2019 and February 2020 have been analysed, as well as interviews with camp managers (see sources next to indicators), a total of 27 indicators were selected from those databases to compose the index.
#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Iraq#KRG#Carte#Vulnérabilité#Camps#migrant#migration
▻https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/77145.pdf
▻https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/iraq-covid-19-camp-vulnerability-index-15-june-2020
Iraq: COVID-19 Population Density in Internally Displaced Person Formal Camps - May 2020 - REACH
Population density was calculated as the total number of individuals per hectare of the designated living area in each IDP camp.
Data collection for IDP Camp Directory Round XIII could not be conducted in all of the IDP camps, due to the public health and access implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, the Round XII data has been used for the camps that could not be accessed.
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▻https://reliefweb.int/map/iraq/iraq-covid-19-population-density-internally-displaced-person-formal-camps
▻https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/REACH_IRQ_Map_COVID19_PopulationDensity_InCampIDPs_May2020_A4.pdf
Covid-19 au Kurdistan irakien : urgence sanitaire ou manipulation politique ? - RFI
Alors que l’Iran semble faire face à une deuxième vague de coronavirus, la petite région frontalière du Kurdistan irakien s’inquiète elle aussi. Le ministre de la Santé a annoncé mardi que 75% des cas dans la région avaient été déclarés durant le dernier mois. Une urgence sanitaire pour certains, une manipulation politique pour d’autres afin de contrôler une population en colère.
#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Iraq#KRG#Crisepolitique#Crisesanitaire#migrant#migration
▻http://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/20200611-le-covid-kurdistan-irakien-urgence-sanitaire-manipulation-politique
Irak : les déplacés du Covid-19 - RFI
Confinement, couvre-feu, comme presque tous les pays du monde, l’Irak a aussi mis en place des mesures de restriction pour lutter contre le coronavirus. Seulement voilà, le pays compte près d’1,5 million de déplacés et de réfugiés. Alors comment fait-on face à l’épidémie lorsqu’on vit sous une tente ou dans habitat précaire ? Il y a évidemment les risques liés au virus, mais aussi l’impact psycho-social sur ces populations souvent très fragiles. L’ONG Première urgence internationale a mis en place un programme de suivi afin d’aider les personnes vulnérables dans les camps, mais aussi dans les villes irakiennes
#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#ONG#Camp#Humanitaire#Pandémie#Santé#confinement#soutienspychosocial#migrant#migration
▻http://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/20200620-irak-les-d%C3%A9plac%C3%A9s-covid
How to Aid Syria Without Aiding Assad- Foreign Policy
U.N. agencies also failed to fully take advantage of options to move cross-border aid into non-regime areas. The U.N. Security Council created a dedicated mechanism in 2014 which authorizes humanitarian actors to use border crossings to deliver assistance to Syria from Turkey, Iraq, or Jordan without the Assad regime’s approval. This lack of impartiality from certain U.N. agencies in Damascus recently impacted the COVID-19 response. The World Health Organization (WHO) assisted Damascus in February, but did not use cross-border corridors in northwest Syria until late March and delivered equipment in northeast Syria in May only to regime emissaries.
#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Rojava#Iraq#Syrie#Frontière#aide_internationale#Politique_internationale#ONU#migrant#migration
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/24/how-to-aid-syria-without-aiding-assad
Relatives of Kurdish coronavirus victim blame death on frail Iraqi health system - Rudaw
More than 30,000 coronavirus cases have been recorded in Iraq so far, and more than 1,100 people have lost their lives. Baghdad’s hospitals are full and health workers warn the situation has gotten out of control.
Doctors across the country have said the facilities they work at are overstretched, and the construction of field hospitals is not proving enough to absorb the influx of new cases.
One Baghdad health worker partly blamed the spike in cases on the public’s failure to adhere to health guidelines.
#Covid-19#Iraq#Crisesanitaire#Pandémie#Santé#hôpital#migrant#migration
Frustration builds as Iraq’s airports remain closed amid rising virus cases - Al Monitor
Many foreigners and Iraqis are unable to return home, including those who have lost jobs amid the pandemic.
Basheer Talib is an engineer from Baghdad who was working in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, when the airports closed. He is stranded, unable to return to his family in Baghdad due to the closure and an interprovincial travel ban.
“I strongly miss my little sons,” Talib told Al-Monitor. “I haven’t seen them since the lockdown.”
Many foreigners and Iraqis are frustrated with the airport closure and unable to get home. They are away from loved ones and some are without work. Others have left the country through complex travel schemes.
#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Travailleur_migrant#Économie#criseéconomique#migrationderetour#migrant#migration
▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/06/frustration-iraq-airports-closed-virus.html
Sulaimani extends closure of government offices until July 4 due to coronavirus outbreak - NRT
Sulaimani governorate’s Supreme Committee for Coronavirus Response said on Saturday (June 27) that the suspension of operations at most government offices will be extended until July 4.
#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Sulaimani#Seconde_vague#confinement#Pandémie#Santé#migrant#migration.
Red Cross and Red Crescent urge more support for refugees in the Middle East North Africa region - International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies
head of World Refugee Day on 20 June, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is increasingly concerned that migrants, refugees and internally displaced people are falling through the cracks. All people, regardless of their status, should be provided humanitarian assistance.
“We know that migrants, refugees and internally displaced people are amongst the most vulnerable people in the region, and amongst that group especially women and children,” said Dr. Hossam Elsharkawi, head of the IFRC for the Middle East North Africa region. “They are particularly at risk for health complications and violence, their temporary accommodation can be crowded, often with inadequate sanitation and shelter or little access to medical care and good nutrition”.
Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies across the region are working directly with authorities and international agencies to ensure that refugees, migrants and internally displaced people are included as part of all COVID-19 response operations.
In Iraq, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society has reached more than 50,000 people on the move and more than 6,000 Syrian refugees with health awareness sessions across 50 camps.
#Covid-19#Iraq#Syrie#ONG#rapport#Camp#Humanitaire#Pandémie#Santé#confinement#migrant#migration
▻https://reliefweb.int/report/world/covid-19-red-cross-and-red-crescent-urge-more-support-refugees-middle-eas
Kurdistan’s Sulaimani suspends government work as COVID-19 infections soar - Kurdistan 24
On Saturday, the High Committee to Combat the Coronavirus in the Kurdistan Region’s Sulaimani province decided to suspend all work at government institutions for a week, starting Sunday.
The move comes after the body held a meeting to discuss the ongoing spike in the number of new cases of the coronavirus disease, which has now killed close to 80 people in the Sulaimani province alone.
#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Sulaimani#Seconde_vague#Pandémie#Santé#migrant#migration
▻https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/6b2eaabb-a077-44d8-af79-f029a51e1930
Timely $10 million USAID contribution protects more communities against COVID-19 outbreak - UN development programme
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has committed over US$10 million recently to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq, allowing the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to scale-up its response to the pandemic into three additional governorates.
The funds – pledged under UNDP’s Funding Facility for Stabilization for activities implemented in partnership with the Government of Iraq – will be used to rehabilitate healthcare facilities and provide medical equipment and furniture to hospitals in the originally-identified priority locations of Basra, Duhok, Karbala, Kirkuk, Najaf, and Ninewa, as well as three additional areas: Babil, Dhi Qar and Maysan.
Funding will also be used to rehabilitate the East Mosul Medical Fluid Factory – one of the largest in Iraq, and a critical source of medical supplies to government hospitals, primary healthcare centres and pharmacies. The factory was severely damaged in the ISIL conflict.
#Covid-19#Iraq#Aide#ONU#Pandémie#Santé#hôpital#migrant#migration
▻https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/timely-10-million-usaid-contribution-protects-more-communities-against-co
BCF distributes 1,000 food, cleaning parcels to quarantined Choman district - Kurdistan 24
The Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF) on Wednesday began to distribute 1,000 parcels of food and cleaning items to the quarantined Choman district in Erbil province, as it recently recorded a spike in the highly infectious coronavirus disease, formally known as COVID-19.
In early June, Erbil’s Choman district reported a record 20 cases in a single day, the highest number of cases since the virus first hit the area. Following the spike, the district was put in quarantine for mass testing and to mitigate further spread of the disease, causing low-income families to face food shortages.
#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Iraq#KRG#Crise_alimentaire#Aide_humanitaire#migrant#migration
▻https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/2a8270e1-be04-4ac8-8c6d-aa228a57a753
COVID-19: Iraq breaks daily record with 1,554 new cases, 61 deaths- kurdistan 24
On Wednesday, the Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment announced 61 deaths and more than 1,500 new cases of the coronavirus in the nation’s highest daily toll yet of infections and deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic.
In a statement released to the press, the ministry indicated that out of 13,053 laboratory tests completed in the last 24 hours, 1,554 came back positive. The total tests conducted to date in Iraq have reached 403,388.
It continued, specifying that “the total number of infections rose to 24,254, the total number of recovery cases to 10,770, total active cases to 12,711, those in intensive care to 159, and the total deaths to 773.”
#Covid-19#Iraq#Chiffre_officiel#Seconde_vague#Pandémie#Santé#confinement#migrant#migration
▻https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/a200a813-4d36-450c-910c-5c0913a7b43e
COVID-19: Kurdistan Region reports record 166 new cases, seven deaths amid continued spike - Kurdistan 24
The coronavirus crisis is particularly acute in Sulaimani province, because it borders Iran, the original epicenter of the virus in the Middle East and which is now experiencing a second spike. It follows a call from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to Mustafa al-Kadhimi, soon after he became Iraqi Prime Minister. In their discussion, Kadhimi agreed to Rouhani’s request to re-open the border, which was done on May 18.
The incubation period for the virus is two weeks. And two weeks after the border with Iran was re-opened, cases of coronavirus began rising in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq.
#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Frontière#Iran#Seconde_vague#Pandémie#Santé#confinement#migrant#migration
▻https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/c411c611-c367-489a-99c8-f1c599eb7dbe
Kurdistan Region extends travel ban between its provinces, and to Iraqi provinces - Kurdistan 24
The decisions will allow people who were travelling in the past 24 hours before this statement to return to their province or the areas of their residence from which they came.
The statement also required citizens, governmental, and private employees, to wear masks and abide by prevention instructions, requiring drivers of all types of vehicles to adhere to wearing masks, warning violators with a fine of 50,000 dinars for each violation—and the driver is the one who pays the fine.
The statement clarified that the border-crossings of Perwezkhan, Bashmakh, Haji Omran, Ibrahim Khalil, Saraziri, Kelly, Tawila, Peshte, and Shushmi, including Erbil, and Sulaimani airports would remain closed to travellers, pointing out that the trade exchange would continue according to the previous instructions.
#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Frontièrerégionale#Seconde_vague#Pandémie#Santé#confinement#migrant#migration
▻https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/b4313617-bdd4-4892-a0b6-63be4dadc996
Irak : assurer la sécurité des familles face au COVID-19 dans les camps - Première urgence internationale
En Irak et au Kurdistan irakien, Première Urgence Internationale est un acteur important de santé dans les camps. L’ONG gère les centres de santé primaires de trois camps qui accueillent des réfugiés et déplacés internes. Pour continuer à répondre aux besoins de ces populations vulnérables pendant la pandémie, la mission a réorganisé ses actions, et notamment mis en place des zones de quarantaine et des sessions d’information et sensibilisation.
#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#ONG#Camp#Humanitaire#Pandémie#Santé#confinement#migrant#migration
▻https://www.premiere-urgence.org/irak-assurer-la-securite-des-familles-face-au-covid-19-dans-les-ca
KRG extends inter-province travel ban until July 1 as coronavirus spread continues - Rudaw
A ban on travel between Kurdistan Region provinces has been extended until July 1, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) interior ministry has announced, as the coronavirus outbreak continues to make a stubborn resurgence
#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Frontièrerégionale#Seconde_vague#Pandémie#Santé#confinement#migrant#migration
Health workers continue strike in Sulaimani province, as coronavirus cases skyrocket - Rudaw
Sulaimani province, the Kurdistan Region’s COVID-19 epicentre, is facing a daunting challenge, as many of the province’s health workers go on strike to protest not receiving their salaries, right when the number of active virus cases nears a thousand.
The Kurdistan Region’s health ministry confirmed Monday 166 new cases of the novel coronavirus and seven deaths in the last 24 hours. Six of the deaths and 127 of the cases are reported to be in Sulaimani province.
#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Sulaimani#Gréve#Hopitaux#Medecin#Pandémie#Santé#migrant#migration
Unemployment drives Kurdish refugees back to Rojava - Rudaw
Unemployment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic has driven many Syrians Kurds in the Kurdistan Region to return to northeast Syria.
Since October 2019, 2,500 Syrians have returned to northeast Syria, also known as Rojava, according to Rashid Hussein of the UNHCR office in Duhok.
#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Iraq#Syrie#Rojava#KRG#Frontière#Crise_migratoire#Déplacés#Economie#Emploi#migrant#migration
Refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan seek solace in camp gardens amid coronavirus lockdown - al khaleej today
Life in Iraq’s largest refugee camp was already difficult, but restrictions imposed to stop the pandemic from reaching the camps have had a devastating impact on vulnerable communities living there.
“The economic effects of this pandemic will be felt for months, if not years to come,” says Jennie Spears from the Lemon Tree Trust, an NGO that supports gardening projects across seven camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
“We estimate that around 40 per cent of people in Domiz 1 have lost their jobs, with no clear idea of when things may return to normality or if those jobs will become available again.”
There have not been any confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Domiz 1, but fears of a rapid spread through refugee communities prompted authorities to impose strict lockdowns in early April, shuttering businesses and closing off the camps.
Many international NGOs temporarily stopped work and schools and mosques remain closed.
An initial ‘stay-in-shelter’ lockdown was lifted after 72 hours, but with cases rising in Kurdish cities, authorities have once again sealed off the camps and told people to stay inside.
#Covid19#Iraq#KRG#UNHCR#migrant#migration#camps
▻https://alkhaleejtoday.co/international/5006710/Refugees-in-Iraqi-Kurdistan-seek-solace-in-camp-gardens-amid-coronavi
In the shadow of COVID19: how to respond to the worsening humanitarian situation in North East Syria - Fight for humanity
While global attention is naturally focussed on the COVID-19 sanitary crisis, the humanitarian situation in North East Syria has worsened since the beginning of the pandemic, not because of the number of COVID-19 cases which has remained low but as a result of a severe economic and humanitarian crisis.
The living conditions of the population in the region have recently deteriorated due to the economic crisis in Syria and the sharp devaluation of the Syrian lira. In addition, COVID-19 travel and movement restrictions as well as limitations in authorized cross-border and cross-line movements, have made the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the population more difficult.
#Covid-19#Iraq#Syrie#Humanitaire#Crise_migratoire#Webinaire#migrant#migration
▻https://www.fightforhumanity.org/post/in-the-shadow-of-covid19-how-to-respond-to-the-worsening-humanitar
New report details damage to Iraqi economy during COVID-19 pandemic- Al Monitor
The report by the UN-affiliated International Organization for Migration shows how virus-related restrictions have led to revenue and job losses for small and medium-sized businesses in Iraq.
#Covid-19#Iraq#Economie#Pandémie#Criseéconomique#migrant#migration
▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/06/iraq-economy-hurt-restrictions-virus-iom-report.html