The Ministry of Public Health (MoPh) announced that 16 positive cases of Coronavirus have been identified in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours.

The MoPH said that seven were infected in Paktua, six in Kabul, one in Panjshir, one in Nangarhar and one in Kunduz.

The ministry said that the confirmed number of cases has now reached 38,070 cases so far.
The ministry added that eight people have died while 80 have recovered, bringing those figures to 1,397 fatalities and 28,440 recoveries.