SHARE When the ambulance arrived at the Salqeen Cemetery in north-western Syria, a small crowd was already waiting. Three men dressed in white hazmat suits opened the back door to reveal a body bag. Ghada Ismael was only 25 years old. She survived a decade-long civil war before the Covid-19 pandemic came. Friends and family gathered in front of the deceased and began praying, led by an imam. A grieving relative broke down in tears. "Did you place her body in the right direction so that her head faces Makkah?” one of the men in white enquired as his colleagues delicately placed the body in