The Ministry of Public Health on Sunday reported 19 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,878 samples tested in the last 24 hours.    

The ministry also reported one death and 45 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.    

The new cases were reported in Kabul (4), Herat (2), Kandahar (1), Nangarhar (2), Kunar (7), Laghman (2) and Khost (1) provinces.   

The ministry says the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 55,733, the total number of reported deaths is 2,444, and the total number of recoveries is 49,333.    

So far, 298,149 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 3,956 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.    

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 2,526,080 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 113,815,816, according to Johns Hopkins University.