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cord-300536-8okuomi6	Baloch, Zulqarnain	Unique Challenges to Control the Spread of COVID-19 in the Middle East	2020-07-13		.txt	text/plain	1941	110	46	These challenges include compromised healthcare systems, prolonged regional conflicts and humanitarian crises, suboptimal levels of transparency and cooperation, and frequent religious gatherings. These challenges include compromised healthcare systems, prolonged regional conflicts and humanitarian crises, suboptimal levels of transparency and cooperation, and frequent religious gatherings. Besides weakening healthcare systems, wars and conflicts in the Middle East have also led to large-scale humanitarian crises. In Iran, the early COVID-19 cases were recorded in Qom (Fig. 3B) , a city that attracts millions of pilgrims from countries including Lebanon, As pilgrims concentrating on religious rituals, there are close contacts among worshipers and insufficient self-protective measures, and therefore amplify the risk of transmission and potential super spreading of SARS-CoV-2 [24] . These include compromised healthcare systems, prolonged regional conflicts and humanitarian crises, suboptimal levels of transparency and cooperation, and frequent religious gatherings.	./cache/cord-300536-8okuomi6.txt	./txt/cord-300536-8okuomi6.txt