The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 48 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,896 samples tested in the last 24 hours.    

The Public Health Ministry also reported one death and 34 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.    

The new cases were reported in Nangarhar (16), Helmand (6), Laghman (7), Kabul (2), Herat (3), Kandahar (3), Balkh (1), Baghlan (2), Parwan (1), Wardak (1), Badakhshan (1), Badghis (2) and Kunar (3) provinces. 

Deaths were reported in Helmand province, according to data provided by the Ministry of Public Health.    

The Health Ministry stated that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 54,939, the total number of reported deaths is 2,399, and the total number of recoveries is 47,583.    

So far, 246,322 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 4,958 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.    

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 2,177,045 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 100,957,112, according to Johns Hopkins University.