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Afghanistan's COVID-19 cases rise to 6,664

| @indiablooms | May 18, 2020, at 11:24 am

Kabul/Xinhua/UNI: The number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 6,664 in Afghanistan as 262 new cases were registered over the past 24 hours, Public Health Ministry's Deputy Spokesman Tawhid Shakohmand said on Sunday.

Shakohmand said one patient had died due to COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the number of COVID-19-related deaths to 169 since the outbreak of the infectious disease in Afghanistan.

A total of 784 patients have recovered since the outbreak in Afghanistan in February, the spokesman added. 

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