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SPECIAL REPORT: Countries currently facing US sanctions, around a quarter of the world’s population,are faring far better than the #UnitedStates and leading the global fight against #COVID__19.
By: @AlanRMacLeod
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#China, for instance, the first epicenter of the outbreak, has managed to slow its new #COVID__19 cases to a trickle, reopening for business after losing 4,632 people – a number that, in the context of a stark #APRIL reality, appears impressively low.
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Another sanctioned state exporting doctors across the world during the pandemic is #Cuba, the island nation is sending medical staff to neighbors like Haiti, #Venezuela, Suriname and Jamaica and also further afield to #Italy. 
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#Venezuela is struggling under crippling U.S. sanctions that have claimed the lives of at least 100,000 people has mobilized to fight the #virus, with twice as many tests as other South American nation, but only 288 #COVID__19 cases have been found, leading to only 10 deaths.

In #Iran, one of the first global hotspots and a country that planners in the #US were predicting would fall in on itself under the strain has managed to get to grips with the #pandemic. The number of new daily cases of #COVID__19 has been falling since March 30.
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@s_m_marandi , a professor at the University of Tehran, claims the crippling sanctions that blocked #Iranian oil exports have better prepared them to deal with the total collapse in global #Oil prices than U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Qatar.

https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi/status/1252317515105144832

Staff work at a lab in an #Iranian medical firm work on #CoronavirusPandemic testing kits just outside Tehran, #Iran .
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