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In this Wednesday, May 20, 2020 photo, members of the Aryubi family walk to a graveyard where Dr. Yousuf Aryubi and two siblings who lost their lives to COVID-19 are buried, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dr. Aryubi's family assumed they just had a bad cold, as one after another, they came down with fevers and coughs -- all because one of the Afghan capital's main hospitals never told them the results of his coronavirus test. Their tragedy points to how a broken-down health system, slow government response and public attitudes have left Afghanistan deeply vulnerable to the global pandemic. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

With test results lost, an Afghan family fell to virus

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and RAHIM FAIEZ and LEE KEATH - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 20, 2020 photo, members of the Aryubi family mourn over the graves of Dr. Yousuf Aryubi, in photo, and two of his siblings who lost their lives to COVID-19, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dr. Aryubi's family assumed they just had a bad cold, as one after another, they came down with fevers and coughs -- all because one of the Afghan capital's main hospitals never told them the results of his coronavirus test. Their tragedy points to how a broken-down health system, slow government response and public attitudes have left Afghanistan deeply vulnerable to the global pandemic. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Without test results, virus raced through an Afghan family

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and RAHIM FAIEZ and LEE KEATH - Associated Press