The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 76 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,559 samples tested in the last 24 hours.     

The ministry also reported five deaths and 16 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.     

The new cases were reported in Kabul (18), Kandahar (18), Herat (3), Nangahar (19), Kunduz (1), Helmand (1), Maidan Wardak (1), Kunar (5), Laghman (7) and Zabul (3) provinces.   

The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 57,019, the total number of reported deaths is 2,521, and the total number of recoveries is 51,956.     

So far, 364,078 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 2,642 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.     

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 2,889,746 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 133,195,909, according to Johns Hopkins University.