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Iraq's coronavirus patients' mortal remains piling up in hospital morgues as cemeteries refuse burial
Fearing the respiratory illness could somehow spread from the corpses, Iraqi religious authorities, tribes and townspeople have sent the bodies of COVID-19 victims back to hospital morgues.
Published: 30th March 2020 01:21 PM | Last Updated: 30th March 2020 01:30 PM
By AFP
BAGHDAD: For Saad Malik, losing his father to the novel coronavirus was only the beginning of his nightmare.
For over a week, cemeteries across Iraq refused to allow the elderly man's burial.
Fearing the respiratory illness could somehow spread from the corpses to nearby population centres, Iraqi religious authorities, tribes and townspeople have sent the bodies of COVID-19 victims back to hospital morgues, where they are piling up.
"We couldn't hold a funeral for him and haven't been able to bury his body, even though it's been more than a week since he died," Malik told AFP, his voice laced with bitterness...
Iraq's coronavirus patients' mortal remains piling up in hospital morgues as cemeteries refuse burial
Fearing the respiratory illness could somehow spread from the corpses, Iraqi religious authorities, tribes and townspeople have sent the bodies of COVID-19 victims back to hospital morgues.
Published: 30th March 2020 01:21 PM | Last Updated: 30th March 2020 01:30 PM
By AFP
BAGHDAD: For Saad Malik, losing his father to the novel coronavirus was only the beginning of his nightmare.
For over a week, cemeteries across Iraq refused to allow the elderly man's burial.
Fearing the respiratory illness could somehow spread from the corpses to nearby population centres, Iraqi religious authorities, tribes and townspeople have sent the bodies of COVID-19 victims back to hospital morgues, where they are piling up.
"We couldn't hold a funeral for him and haven't been able to bury his body, even though it's been more than a week since he died," Malik told AFP, his voice laced with bitterness...