The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) announced that 556 new cases have been confirmed in the last 24 hours, bringing Afghanistan’s total cases to 24,102.

According to the MoPH figures, five patients died and 273 recovered during the day, bringing those figures to 451 dead and 4,201 recovered.

Naqibullah Hashemi, a former member of Kabul’s Provincial Council, was one of the victims.

New cases were reported in Kabul (253), Balkh (74), Nangarhar (43), Takhar (28), 23 each in Kandahar and Bamyan, Baghlan (22), Wardak (20), Kunar (17), Logar (12), Zabul (9), Ghazni (8), Nimroz (8), Daykundi (6), Helmand (5), Laghman (3) and Uruzgan (2).

The labs managed to test 1,065 samples.