KABUL, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Monday confirmed 154 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of patients in the country to 34,605.
A total of 883 tests were conducted within the past 24 hours, and 154 were positive in 14 provinces out of 34 Afghan provinces, the ministry said in a statement.
Twenty-eight patients died within the period, taking the death toll to 1,038, the statement added.
The total numbers of people having recovered from the virus reached 21,280 after 64 new recoveries were recorded since early Sunday.
Laboratories across Afghanistan have completed 80,615 tests since February.
Local health experts believe that the actual number of infections could be much higher than the official figures as scores of patients did not visit hospitals and there was no system to register them. Enditem
