Tolo News: “The number of infected people that we have is almost 1.3 million, but unfortunately the number of deaths is more than the past year,” said Sharafat Zaman Amarkhil, the spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health. Cold weather, food insecurity, air pollution and poverty are considered to be the factors that cause people to get this disease. Afghanistan is one of the countries where pneumonia still causes many fatalities. Many of the patients and those who died from this disease are children. Click here to read more (external link).