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Iraq's Kurdish region issues arrest warrants over funeral linked to surge in COVID-19 cases

Two banned funeral services held in Erbil in March have led to at least 72 coronavirus infections.
ERBIL, IRAQ - APRIL 06: Security forces take measures on a main road after the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) extended the curfew against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Erbil, Iraq on April 06, 2020. (Photo by Ahsan Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government will prosecute the organizers of a prohibited funeral service that infected dozens of people with the coronavirus in the Kurdish region of Iraq, officials told a local news organization. 

“Arrest warrants have been issued for five people who organized a mourning ceremony on March 21 which led to the infection" of a number of people with COVID-19, a spokesperson for Erbil's crisis task force told Rudaw

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