KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Public Health announced on Thursday that 101 people lost their lives to COVID-19 and 2,313 more got infected in the past 24 hours.
It said the new cases have been obtained from 6,092 samples.
According to official statistics, the death toll overnight has been unprecedented since the beginning of the pandemic.
As per official figures, the number of infected people has reached 98,844 and the number of dead has reached 3,943.
Separately, a new study by the Afghan Institute of Strategic Studies said 60% of participants indicated they had problems satisfying food needs partly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It said most of the participants had to seek financial assistance and loans from their friends, relatives, colleagues and communities (47.9%) during the lockdown.
The study also find that approximately, half of participants believed that the government was successful in applying lockdown measures and in awareness raising during COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan. 44.2% of respondents believed that the government was successful in providing isolation centers in the mentioned period.
However, most of them were not satisfied in terms of the provision of treatment services, referral/ambulance services, death management services, or food and essential needs to poor families by the government during the pandemic.
More than half of the participants believed that the risk and threats of COVID-19 disease are very high. Also, same level believe that they 5 have not contracted COVID-19 yet. More than 80% of participants said that they will go for a lab test for detection of the virus as well as COVID-19 vaccination if it becomes available.
Almost 67% of participants reported that they will not go to meetings, religious activities, events and other social gathering or any crowded places if community transmission of COVID-19 exists.
The majority of respondents were neutral or disagree with the idea that there is no COVID-19 virus, and it is just a story devised by profit seeking companies and individuals. But nearly half of the participants think that COVID-19 is a clear indication of the Almighty Allah’s anger on wrong doers or committing sins.
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