On Wednesday, the Ministry of Public Health reported 1,557 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 5,951 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
The ministry also reported 91 deaths from COVID-19 and 996 recoveries in the same period.
The number of total recorded cases is 120,216 and total deaths is 4,962, according to figures by the Public Health Ministry.
Rejecting reports to the contrary, schools and universities remain closed, the ministry said on Tuesday, adding that they will not reopen unless the number of COVID-19 cases starts to fall.
Health officials on Wednesday said that the number of patients has increased and “we are facing the 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 enough.”
“Our number of patients is still the same as in previous days. Currently we have 148 patients in beds while 13 others are waiting for beds,” said Tariq Ahmad Akbari, the head of the Afghan-Japan Hospital.
Ahmad Shah, a family member of a patient, said: “First we took our patient to a private hospital, and they asked us to find oxygen. We looked everywhere but could not find any. There is a shortage of oxygen these days.”
Johns Hopkins University reports that the number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 3,939,571 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 181,887,173.
