Afghanistan now has 9,998 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 782 people testing positive in the past 24 hours.
A spike in coronavirus infections Saturday has doubled the number of cases in Afghanistan in recent days, forcing authorities to call for a"strict lockdown" during Eid, especially in the capital Kabul.
The number of total cases has doubled in just 10 days, raising fears of a wider outbreak across the country. "We are concerned that if the lockdown is not imposed properly, the number of cases will get out of control and beyond our capacity to treat or test them," deputy health minister Waheed Majroh told reporters Saturday.
The virus is believed to have arrived in Afghanistan via the western province of Herat as tens of thousands of migrants returned from neighbouring Iran, the region's worst-hit country.
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