The Ministry of Public Health on Friday reported 254 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,473 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
The Public Health Ministry also reported five deaths and 38 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.
The new cases were reported in Kabul (45), Herat (25), Kandahar (8), Balkh (16), Nangarhar (8), Takhar (29), Baghlan (4), Bamiyan (8), Kunduz (2), Parwan (11), Nimruz (2), Ghazni (9), Logar (11), Badghis (5), Badakhshan (4), Wardak (13), Helmand (4), Laghman (7), Kunar (4), Kapisa (32), Zabul (2) and Sar-e-Pul (5) provinces.
The deaths were reported in Herat (3) and Balkh (2) provinces, according to data provided by the Ministry of Public Health.
The data by the ministry shows that the cumulative number of total cases is now 50,456, the number of total reported deaths is 2,037, and the total number of recoveries is 38,724.
So far, 177,831 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 9,051 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.
The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 1,663,523 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 75,019,857, according to Johns Hopkins University.
