Iraqi doctor Haidar Ali Musa al-Hasani, internal medicine specialist, is disinfected after checking on cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Al-Hakim Hospital in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq on June 19, 2020. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjan/Reuters)





Iraqi youths wearing protective face masks use bicycles and perform a somersault as they practice parkour, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during the holy month of Ramadan in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq on May 3, 2020. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)





Shiite Muslims gather, albeit in fewer numbers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Imam Ali shrine in the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf late on May 16, 2020, to mark Lailat al-Qadr, a night in the holy month of Ramadan during which the Koran was first revealed to the Prophet Mohammed in the seventh century. Worshippers placed copies of the Koran on their heads to convey veneration during the overnight prayers in a centuries-old ritual, as they pleaded to God to rid them of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Haidar Hamdani/AFP Photo)





Muhammed Muhsin and Raid Kaabi wearing protective masks and gloves play drum to wake public up for sahur meal on a street during Ramadan, amid coronavirus (Covid -19) pandemic, in Baghdad, Iraq on May 4, 2020. Sahur meal is the last meal before a long day of fasting that starts with the call to prayer at sunrise on Ramadan month. (Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





An injured anti-government protester is rushed to a hospital during clashes in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 10, 2020. Protesters were back on the streets three days after Mustafa al-Kadhimi was appointed as Iraq's new prime minister. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





An Iraqi women carries cookies for the upcoming Muslim Eid al- Fitr celebrations, that marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Basra, Iraq, Friday, May 22, 2020. (Photo by Nabil al-Jurani/AP Photo)





A member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), who volunteered to work in a cemetery, wears a protective suit, as he burns clothes they used for burial, near the new Wadi Al-Salam cemetery, which is dedicated to those who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the outskirts of the holy city of Najaf, Iraq on May 25, 2020. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)





A boy dives into the Tigris river to cool down, as the temperature soars while pools are closed due to curfew imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Baghdad, Iraq on June 10, 2020. (Photo by Khalid al-Mousily/Reuters)





An assistant of Dr. Hiba Jabbar Ashoor wears a protective face mask while taking a break at Basra Teaching Hospital, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Basra, Iraq on June 20, 2020. (Photo by Essam Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Iraqi children play with plastic toy guns as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday which starts at the conclusion of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on May 25, 2020. Muslims around the world began marking a sombre Eid al-Fitr, many under coronavirus lockdown, but lax restrictions offered respite to worshippers in some countries despite fears of skyrocketing infections. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Taxies and vehicles are seen after vehicles with odd and even numbered plates were allowed to hit the road by the Iraqi General Directorate of Traffic as part of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic measures in Baghdad, Iraq on May 05, 2020. Vehicles with odd-numbered plates were allowed to odd numbered days and even-numbered plates were allowed to even-numbered days. (Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Iraqi itinerant barber Hussain Majid (R) wears a face mask as he gives a haircut to a client at his house in Baghdad, Iraq, 20 May 2020. Cutting the hair of clients at their houses is a precaution barbers turned to, to earn a living during the coronavirus pandemic in Iraq, after the Iraqi authorities have closed the barbers salons and other commercial activities to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease. (Photo by Murtaja Lateef/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An Iraqi Kurdish man shows face masks made by a tailor with traditional checkered pattern fabric, in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis, on June 18, 2020. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi man in a hazmat suit mourns over a tombstone at a cemetary for COVID-19 victims, 20 km from the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf, on June 10, 2020. (Photo by Ali Najafi/AFP Photo)





A group of Karate practitioners train under the supervision of katate coach Omer et-Timimi in Kirkuk, Iraq on May 30, 2020. Young people, whose schools have been on holiday for about two months due to the coronavirus pandemic, come together three days a week and strengthen their immunity with karate sport. (Photo by Ali Makram Ghareeb/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Abdul Hussein Mohammed Hassan, the muezzin of the Basra Al-Musawi mosque, one of the city's larger mosques, reads the Koran alone since all places of worship remain closed as part of the preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Basra, Iraq on May 2, 2020. (Photo by Mohammed Aty/Reuters)





A woman shouts slogans as she takes part with Iraqi protesters in an an anti-government demonstration on Al-Jumhuriyah bridge in the capital Baghdad, on May 10, 2020. Modest anti-government rallies resumed in some Iraqi cities today, clashing with security forces and ending months of relative calm just days after Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhemi's government came to power. (Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





A mechanic, wearing a surgical mask due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, works on a vehicle being repaired at his garage in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on April 30, 2020. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)





A man sits in fishing boat in the water of Shatt al-Arab in Iraq's southern port city of al-Faw, 90 kilometres south of Basra near the Gulf, on May 18, 2020. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





A youth poses while holding two fishes before his face in Iraq's southern port city of al-Faw, 90 kilometres south of Basra near the Shatt al-Arab and the Gulf, on May 18, 2020. In Iraq, a national lockdown to halt the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has found some unexpected fans: local businesses who no longer have to compete with Turkish, Iranian or Chinese imports. Those countries, as well as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Kuwait, typically flood Iraqi markets with inexpensive products at prices local producers can't compete with. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)