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Coronavirus pandemic: Rising virus cases and shortages stoke chaos fears in Iraq

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Another admission to intensive care. Another panicked struggle to survive. For weeks, the Covid-19 death toll has skyrocketed in Iraq. In this intensive care unit managed by Médecins sans Frontières, some of the doctors are Iraqi, some are foreign. But all have the same goal: to keep the patients alive, all suffering the severest symptoms of coronavirus.

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