Xinhua: The Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday confirmed 112 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 35,615. A total of 333 tests were conducted within the past 24 hours, and 112 were positive in 11 out of 34 Afghan provinces, the ministry said in a statement. Three COVID patients died within the period, taking the death toll to 1,186, the statement added. Click here to read more (external link).
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Xinhua: More than two dozen fighters including 12 security personnel were confirmed dead as clash erupted outside Kunduz city, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province on Monday, deputy to Provincial Council Safiullah Amiri said. According to the official, the clash flared up after the Taliban insurgents stormed security checkpoints in Qazaq and Shinwari areas outside Kunduz city early morning triggering heavy fighting and so far 12 security personnel including army and police have been killed and 10 others injured. Click here to read more (external link).
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Tass: No contacts on Afghanistan are currently being planned in any format as the process of prisoner exchange between Kabul and the Taliban radical movement (outlawed in Russia as a terrorist organization – TASS) has stalled, Russian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan and director of the Russian foreign ministry’s second Asia department, Zamir Kabulov, told TASS on Monday. Click here to read more (external link).
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Xinhua: Afghanistan’s Public Health Ministry has registered 40 new COVID-19 positive cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the number of infections to 35,503 in the country, said a statement of ministry on Monday. According to the statement, two patients died over the period, bringing the number of COVID-19 related deaths to 1,183 since the outbreak of the virus in February. Click here to read more (external link).
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Ariana: Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) is still hoping to host Afghanistan in the near future in a five-match Twenty20 International series despite ongoing concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic. According to New Zimbabwe news on Sunday, the country’s national cricket team members have been in training in anticipation of the proposed series. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: A key member of the Taliban’s political office in Doha has blamed the Afghan government for delays in the intra-Afghan negotiations that are aimed at ending the decades of war in the country. The talks were expected to begin 10 days after the Feb. 29 deal between the US and the Taliban, but it is dependent on the completion of a prisoner exchange by the Afghan government and the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
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1TV: Mohammad Yaqub Haidari, the governor of Kabul, said that the survey was conducted with cooperation of religious clerics, local elders and those in-charge of cemeteries. Click here to read more (external link).
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Tolo News: A number of tent-pegging participants in Paktika are petitioning the government to build precisely-specified grounds for them to play the game, which is an ancient cavalry exercise in which a mounted participant with a sword or lance approaches ground targets 100 meters away. Tent-pegging has a long history in Afghanistan and the game has many fans – particularly in the eastern provinces. Click here to read more (external link).
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