On Saturday, the Ministry of Public Health reported 183 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,162 samples tested in the last 24 hours.

The ministry also reported 6 deaths and 66 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.

The new cases were reported in Kabul (63), Kandahar (22), Nangarhar (13), Takhar (4), Balkh (11), Faryab (1), Helmand (28), Bamiyan (3), Maidan Wardak (5), Daikundi (3), Logar (4), Kunar (11), Laghman (14), and Zabul (1) provinces.

The deaths were reported in Kabul (4), Nimroz (1) and Laghman (1) provinces.

The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 60,122, the total number of reported deaths is 2,637, and the total number of recoveries is 53,272.

So far, 404,894 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 4,213 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 3,181,343 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 151,429,652.