KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Public Health confirmed 256 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday amid the second wave of the pandemic.
Fresh daily figures of the MoPH indicate 26 people lost their lives to the Covid-19 and 90 infected individuals recovered.
Daily figures from the Ministry of Public Health show that the death toll has risen to the highest level since the start of the second wave of Covid-19.
In the past 24 hours, 12 people died in Herat, six in Kabul, four in Balkh, two in Panjshir and one each in Faryab and Samangan provinces.
According to these figures, the coronavirus has infected 49,740 people in Afghanistan since its inception, of which 2001 have died and 38,500 have recovered.
Western Herat province remains the epicenter in the second wave with 53 new cases and 11 deaths in the past two weeks alone.
Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, a spokesman for Herat’s public health department, told Salam Watandar that the total death toll from the coronavirus has risen to 346, including 98 women.
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