The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 16 new cases of the coronavirus out of 275 samples tested over the last 24 hours.    

So far, 102,168 samples have been tested in government centers and there are 7,682 known active COVID-19 cases in the country, according to data from the Ministry of Public Health.    

In the last 24 hours, the ministry also reported that nine people have recovered from COVID-19. 

The number of total cases is now 38,129, the total reported deaths is 1,401, and the total recoveries is 29,046.    

The cases were reported in Kabul (2), Balkh (2), Nangarhar (3), Takhar (2), Baghlan (2) and Badghis (5) provinces.  

The number of deaths from COVID-19 globally is more than 826,141 and the number of global coronavirus cases is 24,193,010, according to Johns Hopkins University.