Kabul: Afghan officials said that the country’s Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz has tested positive for the new coronavirus on Friday as the nation recorded 215 new infection cases in the last 24 hours.
Afghanistan has recorded more than 100 deaths from coronavirus and over 3,700 cases.
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According to the UN migration agency, more than 2,70,000 Afghans have returned home from Iran, the Middle Eastern country hardest hit by the contagious virus.
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The returnees are going back mostly untested and unmonitored to cities, towns and villages around the country, threatening to create a greater outbreak in Afghanistan that could overwhelm its health infrastructure wrecked by decades of war.
