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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.The members of Afghanistan’s prize-winning girls’ robotics team say they’re on a life-saving mission — to build a ventilator from used car parts and help their war-stricken country battle the virus.“If we even save one life with our device, we will be proud,” said Farooqi, 17.Their pursuit of a low-cost breathing machine is particularly remarkable in conservative Afghanistan.
As said here by TAMEEM AKHGAR