Baghdad, March 30 (AFP/APP): 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 centers, 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, … Continue reading No resting place for coronavirus dead in Iraq