On Thursday, the Ministry of Public Health reported 293 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,185 samples tested in the last 24 hours. 

The ministry also reported nine deaths and 211 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period. 

The new cases were reported in Nangarhar (96), Kabul (88), Herat (3), Kandahar (31), Balkh (7), Takhar (1), Baghlan (6), Kunduz (2), Paktia (6), Parwan (2), Maidan Wardak (3), Badakhshan (2), Kapisa (6), Logar (1) Ghazni (4), Kunar (3), Laghman (4), Zabul (4), Ghor (12), Khost (7) and Paktika (5) provinces.  

Deaths were reported in Kabul (2), Khost (2), Kandahar (1), Takhar (1), Paktia (1), Logar (1) and Zabul (1) provinces. 

The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 61,455, the total number of reported deaths is 2,673, and the total number of recoveries is 53,961. 

So far, 414,983 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 4,821 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 3,242,595 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 155,225,909.