A Crippling Third Wave Of COVID Adds To Afghanistan's Woes
The beleaguered nation is seeing a surge. The lack of testing means it's difficult to know the extent. One doctor says his Facebook feed is "30, 40%" notices of those who died of the virus.
Few countries have been battered so violently as Afghanistan.
It has been roiled by a war for decades that is expected to escalate in coming months as foreign forces withdraw. There's deepening hunger and starvation. A severe drought is expected to displace hundreds of thousands as summer heat intensifies.
Then there's the pandemic.
In recent weeks, there's been an exponential rise in cases, even with limited testing (the Ministry of Public Health reports there's just been over half a million tests since the start of the pandemic for a population of more than 40 million people).
On June 16, there were 2,313 new cases, which was the "the highest number of new cases [in Afghanistan] recorded in a single day since the onset of the
