{"id":5138,"date":"2021-07-01T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2021-07-01T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:23:00","slug":"5138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/07\/5138\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 5000 lives lost to COVID-19 since pandemic hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The overall deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic across the country surged beyond 5,000 on Thursday, health officials confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As per the fresh figures by the Ministry of Public Health, 86 more lives were lost to COVID-19 and 1940 new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours while 912 patients recovered after initially contracting infections.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/06\/25\/amid-surging-infections-us-pledges-3m-dosses-of-vaccines-for-afghanistan\/\">Amid surging infections, US pledges 3M dosses of vaccines for Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/02\/07\/maiden-consignment-of-indian-covid-19-vaccine-lands-in-kabul\/\">Maiden consignment of Indian Covid-19 vaccine lands in Kabul\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>With this, the overall number of infections mounted to 122,156 while the corresponding deaths went up to 5048.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, health authorities blamed the delta variant of COVID-19 (first detected in India) for the alarming spike in infections and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Minister of Public Health Waheed Majrooh told a news conference in Kabul on Saturday that he had examined 19 suspicious samples of coronavirus in the central laboratories of the ministry, of which 11 were Delta or Indian and 8 were Alpha or English variants of the virus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWN_English\">Follow Us on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swn.english\">Follow Us on Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to him, the reason for the worsening situation or rising death toll due to the pandemic in the country is the high prevalence of Indian variant.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the reports suggest the U.S. plans to give Afghanistan three million doses of the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine as the country is facing a surge of coronavirus cases. The official said the doses could be sent as early as next week along with other supplies such as oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The overall deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic across the country surged beyond 5,000 on Thursday, health officials confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,216,217,261],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-covid-19","tag-coronavirus","tag-vaccine"],"views":488,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","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=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}