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Afghanistan confirms 76 new COVID-19 positive cases

| @indiablooms | Jul 17, 2020, at 01:46 am

Kabul/Xinhua: Afghanistan's Public Health Ministry has confirmed 76 new cases infected with COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, totalling the number of patients with the virus to 35,070 in the country, a spokesperson for the ministry Masooma Jafari said Thursday.

According to the official, 21 patients have died due to the disease over the period, bringing the total number of COVID-19 related deaths to 1,115 since the outbreak of the virus in February in Afghanistan.

A total of 425 patients have recovered, bringing the number of those recovered to 22,881 since February in the country, the spokesperson added.

 

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