The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 206 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,877 samples tested in the last 24 hours.     

The ministry also reported seven deaths and 180 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.     

The new cases were reported Nangarhar (78), Kandahar (34), Kabul (20), Khost (15), Balkh (6), Takhar (2), Kunduz (3), Paktia (6), Parwan (9), Maidan Wardak (13), Kunar (1), Laghman (9), Panjshir (2), Zabul (2) and Nuristan (6) provinces.     

The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 59,576, the total number of reported deaths is 2,618, and the total number of recoveries is 52,974.     

So far, 400,412 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 3,984 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.     

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 3,131,405 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 148,335,023, according to Johns Hopkins University.