The Ministry of Public Health on Friday reported 104 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,668 samples tested in the last 24 hours.   

The Public Health Ministry also reported eight deaths and 329 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.   

The new cases were reported in Kabul (4), Herat (38), Kandahar (3), Balkh (1), Nangarhar (16), Kunduz (2), Nimroz (2), Badakhshan (4), Wardak (3), Badghis (1), Helmand (8), Laghman (3), Kunar (2), Ghor (2), Farah (14) and Uruzgan (1) provinces.  

The deaths were reported in Kabul (1), Herat (2), Kandahar (1), Nimroz (1), Wardak (1), Khost (1) and Faryab (1) provinces, according to data provided by the Ministry of Public Health.   

The Health Ministry stated that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 53,935, the total number of reported deaths is 2,336, and the total number of recoveries is 45,434.   

So far, 223,331 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 6,165 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.   

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 1,996,505 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 93,201,362, according to Johns Hopkins University.