As many as 18 people were tested positive for the coronavirus pandemic within the past 24 hours, said the health ministry on Wednesday, adding the country recorded one COVID-19 death during the same period.
The new infection cases were registered in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, Balkh, Nangarhar, Takhar, Baghlan, Urozgan and Helmand provinces.
Also, 24 patients having been contracted with the COVID-19 disease have recovered over the past 24 hours, bringing the toll of coronavirus recoveries to 48,133.
At least 2,098 tests were carried out during the past 24 hours-period.
Worldwide, 2,340,014 have died from the deadly disease and over 106.9 million more have been infected since the start of an outbreak that first appeared in Wuhan, China, in early December.
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