1TV: Pakistan will close a major border crossing with Afghanistan from Monday to prevent the spread of coronavirus, its embassy in Kabul said. Afghanistan has confirmed one case of coronavirus in the country… Pakistan has confirmed four cases of the deadly disease so far. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday that of the 15 suspected cases of coronavirus from Herat, Ghor and Kabul provinces, only one was positive, in Herat, and the 14 other cases came back negative after tests in Kabul. “The number of incidents is not increasing and is under control, but that does
Tolo News: The public health minister Ferozuddin Feroz on Tuesday said seven more suspected cases of coronavirus were reported in the western province of Herat which shares borders with Iran. On Monday, the minister during a press conference in Kabul confirmed the first coronavirus case in the province. This is the first reported case in
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: Students from Afghanistan in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus, seek the Afghan government’s help, saying they are in a dire situation due to a strict quarantine over the past two weeks. The novel coronavirus has so far killed over 1,000 people and has affected over 42,000 others. Government figures show
Wuhan, China, home to the quickly spreading coronavirus is also a major university town that hosts thousands of foreign students including many Afghan students. Getting them home is tricky but Afghanistan’s health minister says, an isolated 100-bed hospital has been setup for returning students. VOA’s Haseeb Mawdoodi and Rahim Gul Sarwan have more in
Ariana: On February 4th, 2020, the first special care center to fight coronavirus was established in Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital in Kabul. Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz says that the center offers 100 beds, and is dedicated to diagnose and cure coronavirus patients. The minister adds that if need be, they will establish such centers,
1TV: In worst case scenario, around 3,000 people will get infected with coronavirus within six months if it spreads to Afghanistan, the country’s health minister said on Sunday. A total of 262 people, 233 of them Afghans, arrived in Afghanistan from China over the past one week and they were under surveillance in their homes,
Tolo News: The Afghan Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday that 197 Afghan students are in China, including some in the city of Wuhan, and they are vulnerable to the new coronavirus that has so far killed at least 56 people, and some are also at risk of running out of food while locked-down. The