The Ministry of Public Health on Friday reported 1,310 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 3,811 samples tested in the last 24 hours.    

The ministry also reported 36 deaths and 55 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.

The new cases were reported in Kabul (330), Kandahar (55), Herat (41), Balkh (106), Nangarhar (85), Takhar (55), Kunduz (138), Baghlan (33), Faryab (14), Paktia (29), Maidan Wardak (71), Badakhshan (60), Laghman (2), Bamiyan (22), Kunar (12), Panjshir (128), Zabul (10), Ghor (4), Uruzgan (17), Farah (Paktika (48), Sar-e-Pul (44) and Samangan (6) provinces.

Deaths were reported in Kabul (10), Herat (3), Balkh (7), Kandahar (6), Nangarhar (2), Paktia (2), Maidan Wardak (1), Badakhshan (2), Logar (2), and Paktika (1) provinces.

The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 77,963, the total number of reported deaths is 3,104, and the total number of recoveries is 58,125.

So far, 488,824 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 16,741 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, data by the ministry indicates.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 3,702,028 and the number of known global coronavirus cases is 172,170,058.