Categories: Afghanistan

453 new COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths reported

KABUL (Tolo News): The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 453 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 3,062 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry also reported 10 deaths and 411 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.
The new cases were reported in Kabul (116), Kandahar (71), Herat (12), Balkh (29), Nangarhar (37), Baghlan (4), Kunduz (16), Paktia (9), Parwan (7), Maidan Wardak (21), Badakhshan (1), Kapisa (4), Logar (37), Kunar (3), Laghman (9), Panjshir (8), Ghor (4), Farah (5) and Jawzjan (50) provinces.
Deaths were reported in Kabul (2), Kandahar (1), Nangarhar (1), Paktia (3), Logar (1), Kunar (1) and Laghman (1) provinces. The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 64,274, the total number of reported deaths is 2,772, and the total number of recoveries is 54,686.
So far, 437,568 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 6,274 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 3,406,261 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 164,277,420.

The Frontier Post

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