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Iraq has registered 12,180 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a record since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, according to data released today by the Ministry of Health, quoted by AFP.
The total number of people infected with COVID-19 since the beginning of the epidemic reached 1.5 million, and the number of deaths – 18,347 people. The AFP notes that the country’s health system has collapsed and the population remains very skeptical of vaccines.
At the same time, Thailand today registered 15,376 new cases of coronavirus, a record for the second day in a row amid public criticism for the slow pace of the vaccination campaign in the country, which lags behind some of its neighbors, Reuters reported. The Asian country, where the total number of infected since the beginning of the pandemic reached 512,678 people, today also registered 87 deaths from COVID-19, bringing their total number to 4,146 people.
Thailand has set a goal of vaccinating 50 million people by the end of the year, but so far only 5.6 percent of its population of more than 66 million have been fully vaccinated and 18.94 percent have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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