The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday reported 22 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 95 samples tested in the last 24 hours. 

No recoveries or deaths were reported by the ministry in the last 24 hours. 

There are reports of a second wave of the coronavirus in Herat province—the province where the first case of COVID-19 was reported in February. The Ministry of Public Health so far has not confirmed the reports.

According to data by the Public Health Ministry, 108,193 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 4,906 known active COVID-19 cases in the country.    

The number of total cases is now 38,919, the total reported deaths is 1,437, and the total number of recoveries is 32,576. 

The new cases were reported in Balkh (17), Nangarhar (3) and Kunar (2) provinces.

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 951,841, total recoveries are 20,781,266, and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 30,504,864, according to Johns Hopkins University.