The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Iraq in February 2020. Cases have been confirmed in all 19 Iraqi governorates as of the 27 March, with the Iraqi Kurdistan Region accounting for 309 (26%) of those cases as of 8 April. During the pandemic, Iraq reported its first confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections on 22 February 2020 in Najaf. By April, the number of confirmed cases had exceeded the hundred mark in Baghdad, Basra, Sulaymaniyah, Erbil and Najaf.

As of the 7th of April, 28,414 tests have been done in Iraq as a whole (including the Kurdistan Region), with 1202 of them turning out positive. Of those tests, 12,143 were done by the Kurdish Ministry of Health, which means that only 16,271 were done by the Iraqi Ministry of Health. This means that while 0.25% of the KRG population has been tested, only 0.05% of the rest of the country has been tested, thus highlighting the possible disparity between total positive case numbers in the region and the rest of the country.

On 21 June, Iraqi football player Ahmed Radhi died at the age of 56 following complications from COVID-19.