In Iraq, no resting place for coronavirus dead March 29, 2020 at 07:17PM

Fearing the respiratory illness could somehow spread from the corpses to nearby population centres, Iraqis have sent the bodies of covid-19 victims back to hospital morgues, where they are piling up. Iraq has confirmed more than 500 covid-19 cases and 42 deaths from the respiratory disease, but the real numbers are likely much higher.