Young Saudis Grapple With Life-Altering COVID-19
Ethar Fahad, a young legal specialist in Saudi Arabia, was dumbfounded when COVID-19 infected her family. “I didn’t believe it at first,” said the 26-year-old, whose mother and sister caught it before she did and all fell seriously ill with the fever and lethargy, the standard symptoms of COVID. “We were joking around about it … but then we started to fall down, one after the other.” Saudi Arabia shut quickly and broadly in April in a nationwide lockdown. Only essential businesses were open, and citizens were prohibited from going beyond their neighborhoods. “We felt very uncomfortable at first. Wemore
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