The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 62 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 370 samples tested in the last 24 hours.    

The ministry also reported two deaths and 68 recoveries from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.    

So far, 113,020 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 5,034 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, according to data from the Ministry of Public Health.    

The cumulative number of total cases is now 39,548, the number of total reported deaths is 1,469, and the total number of recoveries is 33,045.    

The new cases were reported in Herat (42), Kabul (4), Bamiyan (2), Baghlan (1), Daikundi (5), Badakhshan (3), Nimruz (4) and Zabul (1) provinces.  

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 1,049,854 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 35,814,815, according to Johns Hopkins University.