Iraq's Health Ministry on Sunday, June 7th stated that the total number of coronavirus infections in the country increased to 12,366 after setting a new record of daily caseload with 1,268 infections.

The ministry said in a statement that 28 more deaths were recorded from COVID-19 in the earlier 24 hours, as 16 in Baghdad, pushing the death toll in the country to 346, while 5,186 patients have recovered.

The new cases were reported after 8,609 tests were conducted nationwide during the last 24 hours, and a total of 303,053 tests have been carried out since the coronavirus pandemic, according to the statement.

In the meantime, Iraqi Minister of Health Hassan al-Tamimi asserted that the latest daily increase of cases is due to visits between citizens in the last 10 days and during the holiday of Eid al-Fitr.