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Afghanistan has recorded its lowest number of daily infections to Covid-19 since 1st May, as Kabul paused testing due to a problem in its laboratories and the remote province of Khost recorded its worst day of the crisis.
It comes as the number of confirmed deaths from Covid-19 passes 700, but experts fear that the actual number of deaths is much higher than official figures show.
The country’s health ministry, which has admitted that it has a lack of testing capacity, recorded 165 new cases from 529 tests in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed infections to 30,616. The number of deaths has risen by 20 to 703.
The war-torn country has tested 70,087 suspected patients since the outbreak began. There have been 10,674 recoveries and 19 patients are in critical condition, according to the health ministry.
The capital, Kabul, paused the testing process due to a “problem” in its Covid-19 laboratories, according to the health ministry. Kabul has been the country’s worst affected area in both number of confirmed infections and deaths with 12,546 cases and 156 deaths.
The remote province of Khost recorded its worst day of the crisis after nine patients died overnight and all of its 10 tests came back positive. A mortar shell fired by the Taliban hit a home in Khost’s Domanda district, and killed four children, the interior ministry said Saturday.
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