28 of 80 corona patients have no history of travel abroad: Paikan

KABUL workers while 28 patents have no history of travel to foreign, an official said on Thursday.

Fida Mohammad Paikan, deputy minister of public health, told reporters here 80 people had contracted the coronavirus in the country. Twenty-eight of them had gone abroad..

Paikan said five of them were health workers, one from Kandahar and the rest from Herat.

If the number of coronavirus cases surged in other provinces, public movement in daytime would be banned there as well, the official explained.

The individuals, returning from Iran, South Korea and China should be quarantined inside their homes for at least 14 days, the deputy minister believed.

As many as 800 suspected coronavirus cases have been registered across the country so far. Of them, 80 have tested positive.

According to latest figures, 470,000 people have been affected by the virus, with 21,000 losing lives to the pandemic.

nh/mud

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