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A coronavirus patient receives treatment at a hospital in Najaf, Iraq on Wednesday. AP BAGHDAD: No beds, medicines running low and hospital wards prone to fire Iraq’s doctors say they are losing the battle against the coronavirus. And they say that was true even before a devastating blaze killed scores of people in a Covid-19 isolation unit this week. Infections in Iraq have surged to record highs in a third wave spurred by the more aggressive delta variant, and long-neglected hospitals suffering the effects of decades of war are overwhelmed with severely ill patients, many of them this time young people. ....