Tolo News: A 45-year-old woman died from the coronavirus in western Herat province on Wednesday, the Health Ministry confirmed. This is the second person who has died of the coronavirus in Afghanistan so far. A man died of coronavirus in northern Balkh province early this week. The Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday announced
1TV: Afghanistan’s first coronavirus patient has recovered from the disease, the country’s health ministry said on Tuesday. As 21 others confirmed to have coronavirus, the first patient reported had come from Iran and was hospitalized in Herat province. Click here to read more (external link). Related War-ravaged Afghanistan battles a new threat: coronavirus
1TV: Afghanistan’s health ministry said on Tuesday it detected two more positive cases of coronavirus in the country. The new cases were discovered in the provinces of Herat in the west and Samangan in the north, said Wahidullah Mayar, a spokesman for Public Health Ministry. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Following the registration of four polio incidents in the country’s west zone, the vaccination campaign has intensified, Herat’s health directorate said Sunday. The directorate said nearly one million children in Herat, Farah and Badghis will receive anti-polio vaccine. According to the officials, the campaign will kickoff after a few days’ delay because of
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 24, 2020 The turmoil-hit country lacks quarantine facilities and protocols, trained health care personnel and medical supplies ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan said Monday a patient who recently visited neighboring Iran has tested positive for the coronavirus and is in isolation in a hospital in the western border province of
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 23, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Health officials in Afghanistan reported three suspected cases of coronavirus Sunday in a western province next to the border with Iran, where the outbreak of the disease has killed at least eight people amid a rise in new cases. The reported cases prompted the Afghan government
Tolo News: A group of Herat residents on Tuesday claimed that “at least eleven civilians were killed” in a drone strike in Kashk-e-Kohna district in the western province on Monday evening. Massouda Karokhi, an MP from Herat, also confirmed the incident and the casualties. According to the residents, “eight children” were among those killed in
Al Jazeera: The narrow road that leads to the Yu Aw synagogue in the ancient city of Herat in western Afghanistan is lined with traditional mud homes that, despite their rough exterior, are fine examples of centuries-old architectural dexterity. Ghulam Sakhi, the caretaker of some of the heritage sites, leads the way, taking short quick
Tolo News: The billboards that were installed by Mawlawi Mujibur Rahman Ansari, head of Herat’s Gazargah mosque, which insisted that women wear the hijab, were taken down by the directorate of the pilgrimage in Herat province. Herat residents praised the work of the directorate. Previously, Mawlawi Ansari installed billboards insisting that women wear hijabs and called
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 22, 2020 A U.S. drone strike earlier this month in the western Afghan province of Herat that apparently targeted a militant group also killed at least 10 civilians, including three women and three children, an Afghan rights official and a council member said on January 22. The Afghan official said