Kabul: 3rd Afghan doctor dies of Covid-19

KABUL (MoPH) on Wednesday said another doctor died in capital Kabul from Covid-19 infection.

Dr. Wahidullah Mayar, MoPH spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Dr. Iqbal Omari had been quarantined at him home but later developed shortness of breath and lost battle for life at the Afghan-Japan hospital today (Wednesday) at around 1:00am.

He said Dr. Omari was a specialist surgeon at Shinozadah hospital and a resident of northern Baghlan province and his death was a big blow to Afghanistan’s public health sector.

Dr. Omari became the third doctor who lost life to COVID-19 in Afghanistan. Earlier a doctor of Amiri Medical Complex Dr. HanifullahHanif and Dr. YousufAryaee, a children specialist, died of the Covid-19.

It is worth mentioning that more than 500 doctors and healthcare workers have been infected with coronavirus in Kabul, Herat and in some other provinces.

Earlier in the day, MoPH said 70 new COVID-19 cases have been registered in Afghanistan, taking the nation’s tally to 784.

It said of the 784 cases, 306 were detected in Herat, 209 in Kabul, 93 in Kandahar, 35 in Nimroz, 27 in Balkh, 13 in Ghazni, 10 in Paktia, nine each in Nangarhar and Helmand, eight in Logar, seven in each in Daikundi and Takhar, six each in Farah and Samangan provinces.

It added, five each in Bamyan, Baghlan, Faryab and MaidanWardak, three each in Kunduz, Zabul, Ghor and Badghis provinces and two each in Kunar and Kapisa provinces and each one in Parwan, Badakhshan, Sar-i-Pul, Uruzgan and Paktika provinces.

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