The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 50 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,815 samples tested in the last 24 hours.

The ministry also reported one death and 48 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.

The new cases were reported in Kabul (3), Herat (4), Kandahar (1), Nangarhar (2), Takhar (2), Paktia (5), Kunduz (10), Badakhshan (5), Panjshir (1) and Nuristan (1) provinces.

The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 56,226, the total number of reported deaths is 2,467, and the total number of recoveries is 49,802.

So far, 335,925 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 3,957 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 2,736,298 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 124,305,890, according to Johns Hopkins University.