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Over 1,300 IDPs and refugees arrived in Kurdistan Region in January 2021- KUrdistan 24

“The displacement process is continuing to Kurdistan Region. On January 2021 nearly 1,307 IDPs and Refugees arrived in the Kurdistan Region,” the JCC said.

According to the JCC report the return to the region’s displacement camps is due to poor living conditions, lack of job opportunities and lack of services, instability, and security in their places of origin.

Iraq’s economy, including that of the Kurdistan Region, has further suffered from an economic crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting drop in oil prices.

▻https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/23943-Over-1,300-IDPs-and-refugees-arrived-in-Kurdistan-Region-in-Janua

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IDPs return to camps in Iraq, Kurdistan Region | Rudaw.net

Internally displaced people (IDPs) from across Iraq are returning to camps in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region amid a lack of services and security in their areas of origin.
“We don’t live a good life. We are a family of seven and we can’t buy things. We don’t have a house and we can’t afford to rent. The security situation is not good. Even healthcare is not good, and coronavirus has spread. But the situation is better in the camp,”

▻https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/15022021

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COVID-19: Highest death toll in Kurdistan Region, as WHO and KRG launch COVID awareness campaign - Kurdistan 24

Rising cases in Dohuk Province

The ministry said in a statement that it had conducted 4,699 new tests across the region, with 458 returning positive: 199 were in Dohuk province, marking a significant increase in cases there. Some 127 new cases were reported in Erbil and 91 in Sulaimani.

The ministry also said that 27 people had died of the virus over the past 24 hours—the highest coronavirus death count in one day, raising the total to 930 fatalities from the disease across the Kurdistan Region.

COVID-19 is highly contagious, and health authorities have repeatedly explained what needs to be done to control its spread: wear a face mask; practice social distancing; and regularly wash hands.

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Bus, taxis drivers in Erbil protest coronavirus travel ban - NRT Tv

us and taxi drivers protested at a transportation terminal in Erbil city on Thursday (August 6) calling on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to re-open routes between Erbil and other areas of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq.

Gathering at the Erbil-Baghdad Garage, the drivers complained that they had been out of business for more than four months due to the coronavirus travel ban in the Region, noting that their counterparts in Sulaimani had already begun operations to governorates in central and southern Iraq.

“Our demand is to be treated like the drivers from Sulaimani, Baghdad, Kirkuk, Kifri, Kalar, and Chamchamal,” one of the protesters told an NRT reporter.

“We are in a region that became three states. The roads have been opened between Sulaimani and Baghdad and there is no problem,” he added, saying that large numbers of tourists from outside the Kurdistan Region had visited Sulaimani over the Eid al-Adha holiday.

The protesters also argued that it was unfair that restaurants and other businesses are allowed to open, but their industry cannot return to normal.

According to the KRG’s health ministry, there have been 15,577 cases of coronavirus in the Kurdistan Region and 597 patients have died as of Wednesday night. In Iraq as a whole, there have been 137,556 cases and 5,094 deaths.

Although Sulaimani has recorded the highest total number of cases in the Kurdistan Region since the beginning of March, in recent weeks Erbil has had the highest number of new cases per day.

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COVID-19 case detected at IDP camp in Duhok: migration and displacement ministry- NRT Tv

The federal Ministry of Displacement and Migration announced on Wednesday (August 5) that it has identified a coronavirus case at the Chamishku camp in Duhok’s Zakho district, the first at that facility.

The General Director of the ministry’s Branches Affairs Department Ali Abbas said in a statement that the person in question was a 39-year-old internally displaced person (IDP).

“Thirty of those who were in contact with him have been isolated according to the initial report issued by the competent authorities in the province,” read the statement.

“With the guidance of Minister of Immigration and Displacement Evan Faeq, immediate measures have been taken to sterilize the camp and prevent entries and exits to limit the spread of the virus,” Abbas added.

“Necessary measures have been taken in coordination with Duhok Health Department to take samples, transport patients, and isolate the contacts.”

A request for comment sent to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Joint Crisis Coordination Centre (JCC) was not immediately returned.

Located just north of Zakho city, Chamishku is home to 26,520 IDPs, according to UNHCR.

Since the beginning of the Kurdistan Region’s coronavirus outbreak in March, Duhok has been relatively free of the virus, but cases have increased significantly in the past two week, surging from 357 cases on July 21 to 801 on Tuesday.

For many, the nightmare scenario is that the coronavirus outbreak spreads to the displacement camps, where social distancing and other public health measures are difficult to achieve

▻https://nrttv.com/En/News.aspx?id=22999&MapID=1

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Coronavirus cases rising in Erbil, says health official - ESTA KRD

Spokesman for the General Directorate of Health in Erbil Dr. Bzhar Musa said COVID-19 patients were in a “bad condition” in Erbil, as most of them have serious symptoms.

“The condition of patients at Rizgari hospital is bad, and most of them are under ventilators, and some others need oxygen,” Musa told Esta Media Network.
“Some of the patients have severe symptoms of the virus,” he said.
The Kurdistan Region’s ministry of health recorded 218 coronavirus cases and six deaths in Erbil on Tuesday. There were 16 cases and four deaths in Sulaimani. The Region’s total number of infections reached 15,173, with 586 deaths.
In Sulaimani, deputy director of health Dr. Herish Said Salim said the situation in the province was “good” and that the number of cases were decreasing.

As part of measures against the virus, the interior ministry ordered the closure of several places, including tourist sites, parks, cafeterias and teahouses in the Region

The Region’s ministry of health said in a statement that 218 new infections were in Erbil, 16 in Sulaimani, 28 in Garmian and 83 in Duhok.

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Border crossing between Turkey, Iraq’s KRG closed due to coronavirus - Bianet
The Habur-Ibrahim Khalil border crossings reopened in May after being shut down at the start of March

#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Frontière#TurquieSeconde_vague#Pandémie#Santé#confinement#migrant#migration

▻https://bianet.org/5/113/228456-border-crossing-between-turkey-iraq-s-krg-closed-due-to-coronavirus

Iraq: Displaced people extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 - MSF

Two years since the end of the war with the Islamic State group, more than 1.3 million people in Iraq are still displaced from their homes and are now extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 due to overcrowded and unhygienic living conditions, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today.

“Internally displaced people in Iraq have been suffering for years, living in precarious and often cramped formal and informal camps,” said Gul Badshah, MSF head of mission in Iraq. “There have been the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in a few internal displacement camps in Iraq, including where MSF works in Laylan camp near Kirkuk. While there have not been more confirmed cases for now, we are still worried about the impact COVID-19 will have on the most vulnerable people inside the camps, especially given the difficulty for people take self-protective measures.”

#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Iraq#KRG#Sanitaire#Déplacés#Camps#migrant#migration

▻https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/iraq-displaced-people-extremely-vulnerable-covid-19

Kurdistan Region airports to stay closed to commercial passenger flights until July 22 - Rudaw

Commercial passenger flights from Kurdistan Region airports are to remain suspended until July 22, the head of Erbil International Airport (EIA) has announced.

The ban will include all international and domestic flights, except for military, medical aid, and cargo flights, EIA director Talal Fayaq told a press conference on Monday.

“It is expected that flights might resume after July 22, but until this date the airports remain closed,” Fayaq said, pending an Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) decision on whether flights will be allowed to resume on that date.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#confinement#Aeroport#Iraq#KRG#Tourisme#santé#pandémie

▻https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/130720201

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

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▻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.

#Covid-19#Moyen-Orient#Iraq#KRG#Carte#Déplacés#Camps#migrant#migration

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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

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.

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

▻https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/16062020

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

▻https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/150620202

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

▻https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/14062020

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

Kurdistan Parliament closes for two weeks after multiple positive coronavirus tests - NRT

According to information obtained by NRT, one member of parliament and three members of staff have tested positive, but their identities were not revealed.

“In light of the positive coronavirus cases the Presidency is closing Parliament for 2 weeks,” it said, adding that all members of parliament and staff who have not yet had a test will have them administered them as soon as possible.

“We ask everyone in [the Kurdistan Region] to follow preventive measures, protect yourselves [and] contain COVID-19,” it urged, referring to the disease caused by coronavirus infection.

#Covid-19#Iraq#KRG#Sulaimani#Seconde_vague#Pandémie#Santé#confinement#migrant#migration

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