Foreign Ministry Official Spokesman Dr.Ahmed Al-Sahaf

Iraq Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Sat, May 9, 2020

The Foreign Ministry through the efforts of our embassies deployed throughout the countries of the world, and with high efforts of the Crisis Cell and the Protocol Department at the Ministry since the start of the ban and closure procedures, and the suspension of flights have worked hard to transport Iraqis stranded in more than (22) countries, returned about (16041) citizens, by (81) air flights , (3) land trips in coordination with the Iraqi Airways , the Civil Aviation Authority, and the concerned authorities in the workplaces of our diplomatic and consular missions.
The Ministry is also following with great interest the conditions of those infected with Coronavirus from the Iraqi community abroad and their number is (247), (82) recoveries , (36) deaths in (22) countries.


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