In this picture taken on September 1, 2020, a health official takes a swab sample from a child to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing site in Karachi. Six months after the coronavirus arrived in Pakistan, the country appears to have dodged the worst of the pandemic, baffling public health experts and dampening fears its crowded urban areas and ramshackle hospitals will be overrun. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)
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