From Iran´s hot zone, Afghans flee home, spreading virus
(WorldNews Pakistan)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Mahdi Noori, a young Afghan refugee in Iran, was left jobless when the factory where he´d worked cutting stone was shut down because of the coronavirus outbreak. He had no money, was afraid of contracting the virus and had no options. So he headed home. He joined a large migration of some 200,000 Afghans and counting who have been flowing home across the border for weeks - from a country that is one of the world´s biggest epicenters of the pandemic to an impoverished homeland that is woefully unprepared to deal with it. At the border, Noori lined up with thousands of other returning refugees earlier this month, crowded together waiting to cross. `I saw women and...