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Afghanistan reports 575 New Covid-19 cases

| @indiablooms | Jun 08, 2020, at 04:51 pm

Kabul/UNI:  Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health on Monday said 575 new cases of COVID-19 have been discovered from the 978 samples tested in the past 24 hours.

Kabul was on the top of the list with 193 new cases, followed by Herat with 151.

Other provinces reporting cases were Kandahar (39), Paktia (7), Nangarhar 23), Badghis (13), Takhar (5), Logar (22), Nimruz (10), Wardak (7), Parwan (13), Lagman (3), Helmand (39), Kunar (26), Ghor (10), Zabul (8), Badakhshan (1), and Daikundi (5).

The ministry also confirmed that 12 people had died from COVID-19, and 329 others have recovered in the past 24 hours, during the same period.

The number of active cases in Afghanistan currently stands at 18,377, according to the ministry.

The total number of known deaths from COVID-19 in the country is 369 and the total recovered cases is 2,171, according to the ministry.

So far, 48,305 samples have been tested in Afghanistan out of which the number of positive COVID-19 cases stands at 20,917 according to the ministry's data.  

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