The Ministry of Public Health on Friday reported 76 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,847 samples tested in the last 24 hours.  

The Public Health Ministry also reported three deaths and 25 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.  

The new cases were reported in Kabul (6), Herat (18), Kandahar (2), Balkh (4), Nangarhar (7), Takhar (1), Baghlan (2), Kunduz (1), Kapisa (3), Helmand (3), Kunar (17), Ghor (1) and Sar-e-Pul (10) provinces. 

The deaths were reported in Herat (2) and Kunar (1) provinces, according to data provided by the Ministry of Public Health.   

The Health Ministry stated that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 54,559, the total number of reported deaths is 2,373, and the total number of recoveries is 46,912.     

So far, 236,300 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 6,716 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.     

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 2,092,500 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 97,560,171, according to Johns Hopkins University.