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365 new COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths reported in Kabul

KABUL (Tolo News): On Wednesday, the Ministry of Public Health reported 365 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,993 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry also reported 10 deaths and 56 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.

The new cases were reported in Nangarhar (97), Kabul (66), Kandahar (31), Herat (24), Nimruz (23), Balkh (10), Takhar (4), Kunduz (6), Paktia (17), Helmand (5), Bamiyan (5), Maidan Wardak (3), Badakhshan (5), Kapisa (24), Ghazni (7), Badghis (5), Laghman (9), Panjshir (2), Ghor (1), Khost (4), Farah (4), Paktika (9) and Nuristan (3) provinces.

Deaths were reported in Kabul (4), Kandahar (1), Paktia (2), Khost (2) and Farah (1) provinces. The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 61,162, the total number of reported deaths is 2,664, and the total number of recoveries is 53,750.

So far, 412,798 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 4,748 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates. According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 3,228,547 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 154,386,183.

The Frontier Post

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