The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 764 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 3,280 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
The ministry also reported 12 deaths and 251 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.
The new cases were reported in Kabul (154), Herat (18), Kandahar (148), Balkh (42), Nangarhar (31), Takhar (39), Baghlan (7), Kunduz (57), Nimruz (16), Paktia (29), Faryab (2), Helmand (1), Maidan Wardak (51), Badakhshan (28), Logar (65), Kunar (5), Laghman (21), Panjshir (31), Zabul (7), Paktika (11) and Nuristan (1) provinces.
Deaths were reported in Kabul (3), Kandahar (1), Balkh (1), Takhar (1), Nimruz (1), Paktia (1), Logar (1), Laghman (1) and Uruzgan (1) provinces.
The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 69,130, the total number of reported deaths is 2,881, and the total number of recoveries is 56,962.
So far, 459,050 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 9,287 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 3,498,862 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 168,427,774.
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