The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday reported four new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,078 samples tested in the last 24 hours.

The ministry also reported 1 death from COVID-19 in the same period.

The new cases were reported in Kabul (2), Helmand (1) and Kapisa (1) provinces.

The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 56,290, the total number of reported deaths is 2,469, and the total number of recoveries is 49,994.

So far, 340,347 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 3,830 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 2,768,739 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 126,192,876, according to Johns Hopkins University.