The Ministry of Public Health on Sunday reported 260 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,495 samples tested in the last 24 hours.     

The Public Health Ministry also reported 10 deaths and 297 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.     

The new cases were reported in Kabul (63), Khost (60), Herat (32), Kandahar (6), Nangarhar (6), Takhar (48), Baghlan (9), Daikundi (4), Logar (6), Wardak (6), Laghman (1) and Nuristan (6) provinces.  

The deaths were reported in Khost (5), Kabul (3), Nangarhar (1) and Takhar (1) provinces, according to data provided by the Ministry of Public Health.     

The data by the ministry shows that the cumulative number of total cases is now 47,901, the number of total reported deaths is 1,875, and the total number of recoveries is 37,782.     

So far, 158,811 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 7,747 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.     

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 1,529,330 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 66,570,434, according to Johns Hopkins University.