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Covid-19 claims 7,700 lives in Afghanistan so far

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A medical official wearing a Personal Protective equipment (PPE) suit takes a swab sample from a members of the Loya jirga (grand assembly of Afghan elders) to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Kabul Polytechnic University, in Kabul on August 5, 2020. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
A medical official wearing a Personal Protective equipment (PPE) suit takes a swab sample from a members of the Loya jirga (grand assembly of Afghan elders) to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Kabul Polytechnic University, in Kabul on August 5, 2020. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

KABUL (Pajhwok): The World Health Organization (WHO) says that a total of 178,996 coronavirus cases have been reported and 7,685 lives lost to the pandemic in Afghanistan since the outbreak of the virus.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in Feb 2020, a total of 579,366 samples have been tested for COVID-19 through public laboratories in the country.

In week number 18 of 2022, 884 samples were tested in public labs. Of them, 97 samples tested positive for COVID-19 (11 percent positivity) and two new deaths were reported.

This represents a 54 percent decrease in . . .

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