{"id":2325,"date":"2020-12-15T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T12:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2020-12-15T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T12:33:14","slug":"covid-19-highest-death-toll-recorded-in-the-second-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2020\/12\/covid-19-highest-death-toll-recorded-in-the-second-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Highest death toll recorded in the second wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Ministry of Public Health confirmed 256 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday amid the second wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh daily figures of the MoPH indicate 26 people lost their lives to the Covid-19 and 90 infected individuals recovered.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Western Herat province remains the epicenter in the second wave with 53 new cases and 11 deaths in the past two weeks alone.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, a spokesman for Herat&#8217;s public health department, told Salam Watandar that the total death toll from the coronavirus has risen to 346, including 98 women.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Public Health confirmed 256 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday amid the second wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,218,6,7],"tags":[12,180,217,261,350],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-report","category-health","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-herat","tag-coronavirus","tag-vaccine","tag-covid-10"],"views":621,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}