{"id":4561,"date":"2021-05-22T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2021-05-22T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:41:50","slug":"covid-19-claims-ten-more-lives-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/05\/covid-19-claims-ten-more-lives-in-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 claims ten more lives in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) \u2013 At least ten coronavirus patients lost their lives during the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the MoPH, a total of 1493 suspected patients were tested for COVID-19 in this period out of which 242 turned out to be positive. The new cases have been registered in fourteen provinces.<\/p>\n<p>In the same period, 96 patients recovered after initially contracting the virus, it added. According to statistics by the Ministry of Public Health, since the pandemic, a total of 443,823 tests have been conducted nationwide out of which 65,728 proved positive.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/03\/30\/moph-warn-of-new-variants-of-coronavirus\/\">MoPH warns of new variants of coronavirus\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2020\/10\/04\/coronavirus-disrupts-progress-in-achieving-sdgs-in-afghanistan\/\">Coronavirus disrupts progress in achieving SDGs in Afghanistan <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this while, at least 2802 patients lost their lives and 55,886 recovered after contracting the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, an estimated 166 million people have contracted the virus while some 3.4 million have lost their lives and over 147 million recovered.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWN_English\">Follow Us on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swn.english\">Follow Us on Facebook\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The United States, India, Brazil, France, Turkey, and Russia are among the worst affected countries.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 At least ten coronavirus patients lost their lives during the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,5,4,7],"tags":[12,216,217],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-politics_","category-news_","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-covid-19","tag-coronavirus"],"views":464,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","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=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}