The first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed on the 1st of March 2020 in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Since then, 171 cases were diagnosed in the region, amongst these 82/171 (47.95%) cases were female (1). The age of diagnosed patients ranged from 2 to 80 years old. 128/171 (74.9%) were diagnosed through routine testing at the end of quarantine period and were symptoms free (1). Amongst our patients, 34/171 (19.9%) patients presented with symptoms, 61/171 (35.7%) recovered and 2/171 passed away giving a case fatality rate of 1.17% (1). Careful examination of data from the region showed that the majority of our patients were asymptomatic and the case fatality rate was very low. Besides, despite the limited resources in the region, the cure rate was high.
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