The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says at least 70 new positive cases of coronavirus were registered in the country during the past 24 hours.

MoPH in a statement said that around 542 cases have been tested at the Ministry’s laboratories which 70 of them confirmed positive.

According to MoPH, the new cases include 31 cases in Kabul, 22 in Herat, 3 in Kandahar, 3 in Ghazni, two in Maidan Wardak, Kunar, Nangarhar each and one in Faryab, Nimroz and Baghlan each.
This comes as with the registration of the new cases, the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country reaches 784.