The pursuit by young women of a low-cost breathing machine to battle coronavirus is particularly remarkable in conservative Afghanistan
On most mornings, Somaya Farooqi and four other teenage girls pile into her dad’s car and head to a mechanic’s workshop. They use back roads to skirt police checkpoints set up to enforce a lockdown in their city of Herat, one of Afghanistan’s hot spots of the coronavirus pandemic.
Herat province in western Afghanistan is especially hard-hit because of its proximity to Iran, a hotbed for coronavirus in the region.Advertisement So far, Farooqi’s father hasn’t been able to get one, but the girls are in a hurry. “We are concerned about security driving out of the city, but there is no other option; we have to try to save people’s lives,” Farooqi said.
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