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Coronavirus: Inside Iraq’s only Covid-19 cemetery

“My family doesn't know I work here”

A small group of volunteers in Iraq are taking on the emotionally and physically demanding task of burying Covid-19 victims after local cemeteries refused to take in those who died of the novel disease
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