On Thursday, the Ministry of Public Health reported 1,940 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 5,506 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
The ministry also reported 86 deaths from COVID-19 and 912 recoveries in the same period.
The number of total recorded cases is 122,156 and total deaths is 5,048, according to figures by the Public Health Ministry.
On Wednesday, health officials said “we are facing a lack of oxygen at the hospitals.”
The doctors at Afghan-Japan Hospital said: “The hospital needs another oxygen production system. The current one is not sufficient.”
Johns Hopkins University reports that the number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 3,948,053 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 182,246,769.