An Iraqi family celebrates their daughter's birthday with a cake with figures of Dettol bottles and models of the coronavirus, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a cake shop in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq on April 24, 2020. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)





A man holds a pocket watch at noon, as he shows the time while posing for photo at an almost empty market near the Imam Ali shrine, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Najaf, Iraq, March 31, 2020. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)





A man walks down an empty street in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 20, 2020. The government announced a weeklong curfew to help fight the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





An Iraqi medic takes a nasal swab from a woman in Iraq's central shrine city of Najaf on April 20, 2020, during the nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Haidar Hamdani/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi couple prepares to get married as authorities imposed restrictions on large gatherings in a bid to stem the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Iraq's central shrine city of Najaf on April 9, 2020. (Photo by Haidar Hamdani/AFP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask, following an outbreak of coronavirus, holds a sign reading “Long live the eighth of March the International Women's Day” as she protests during the International Women's Day in Baghdad, Iraq, March 8, 2020. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Shi'ite pilgrims make their way to Kadhimiya to mark the death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim during a curfew imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Baghdad, Iraq on March 18, 2020. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Volunteers search for people who need help on a flooded area after heavy rainfall in east Mosul, Iraq on March 18, 2020. (Photo by Abdullah Rashid/Reuters)





A woman wearing a protective face mask stands on her walker, as riot police spray sterile water in the streets and markets, following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as they used to spray water on demonstrators, in Basra, Iraq on March 31, 2020. (Photo by Essam al-Sudani/Reuters)





A masked woman walks past shops that are shuttered to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus during a curfew to help fight the spread of the coronavirus a nearly empty popular market in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 4, 2020. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Passengers wear protective masks while waiting for their plane in Baghdad Airport, Iraq, Wednesday, March 4, 2020. From religion to sports, countries were taking drastic and increasingly visible measures to curb the new coronavirus that first emerged in China and was spreading quickly through Europe, the Mideast and the Americas. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





A civil defense worker wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the new coronavirus, in the main market, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Iraqi volunteers spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus during a curfew, in a market in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 22, 2020. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





A man prays inside the closed Moussawi Grand Mosque in Basra on April 3, 2020. Iraq has confirmed more than 500 COVID-19 cases and 42 deaths from the respiratory disease, but the real numbers are likely much higher as few of the country's 40 million people have been tested. Authorities have declared a countrywide lockdown until April 11, urging citizens to stay at home and adopt rigorous hygiene routines to forestall the spread of the virus. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





A policeman uses a slingshot to fire a stone towards demonstrators during clashes in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 6, 2020. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





People walk in a nearly empty street during a curfew to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





A federal police officer crosses an empty bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Iraq announced a weeklong curfew to help fight the spread of the virus. For most people, the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Closed shops are seen in old Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Iraq announced a weeklong curfew to help fight the spread of the COVID-19 virus. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo)





Iraqi health ministry workers pray by a coffin of a person who died from coronavirus at a new cemetery for the people who died from Covid-19 outside the town of Najaf, Iraq, Monday, March 30, 2020. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





A woman is seen wearing a mask embellished with petals in the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf on March 21, 2020 amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Haidar Hamdani/AFP Photo)