The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) reported 87 new Coronavirus cases from the 523 samples tested in the government’s laboratories in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan.

The MoPH reported five deaths and 146 recoveries, pushing those figures to 1,497 dead and 33,760 recovered from COVID-19.
The World Health Organization-backed survey revealed that around 31.5% of Afghanistan’s population contracted the virus since the country imported its first cases from neighboring Iran.
Government officials say the reason behind conducting the new survey was to prepare for a possible second coronavirus wave. With the help of the new data, authorities will be better equipped to deal with the situation, they say.