A joint study between the World Health Organization (WHO) and China on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans...
The Public Health Ministry (MoPH) said Saturday that Afghanistan could face a third wave of COVID-19 infections as a new variant of the virus has been...
China has pledged to donate 400,000 doses of the Coronavirus vaccine to Afghanistan, officials confirmed. Acting Public Health Minister Wahid Majrooh met with the Chinese Ambassador...
Afghanistan officially launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Tuesday aimed at immunizing hundreds of thousands of people across the country. Health workers, Afghan Security Forces members,...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has renewed his call for a global truce, so the world can focus on fighting the pandemic. Guterres stated in a tweet...
The US Embassy in Kabul has expressed concern over the “misappropriation” of the funds to battle the pandemic in Afghanistan. The Embassy said in a statement:...
Afghanistan received its first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) confirmed. The shipment was transported from Mumbai, India to Kabul...
As countries around the world struggle with new virus variants and vaccine shortfalls, the global COVID-19 caseload surpassed the 100 million mark on Wednesday, according to...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent a team of scientists to China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, to probe the origins of the...
The New Year 2021 was welcomed with fireworks shows and light displays in various countries around the world, with muted celebrations due to the Covid-19 restrictions....
Minister of Public Health Ahmad Jawad Osmani said on Thursday that cases of the new strain of Coronavirus had been detected in Pakistan and India and...
The Chinese journalist who reported from Wuhan, the epicenter of the Covid-19, during the early stages of the Coronavirus outbreak has been sentenced to four years...
French President Emmanuel Macron has been tested positive for Covid-19, the Elysee Palace said in a statement on Thursday. “The President of the Republic has been...
Mohammad Azam Rahnaward Zaryab, Afghanistan’s most celebrated novelist, died of Covid-19 at the age of 76 on Thursday night. Zaryab was hospitalized at Sardar Mohammad Daoud...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said the pandemic has put enormous pressure on Afghanistan’s fragile health care system and the economy. In an exclusive interview with...
Afghan spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman has been tested positive for Covid-19. Rahman is set to play for the Australian cricket team Brisbane Heat in the upcoming...
US President Donald Trump Friday confirmed that he and his wife Melania Trump were tested positive for Covid-19. Trump wrote on a Twitter post that he...
India’s coronavirus tally reached 5.9 million cases on Sunday after 88,600 new infections were recorded in a 24 hour period. The total number of cases is...
President Ghani says that the Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the world into turmoil, uncertainty, and unprecedented risk. Addressing a side event – Poverty at the Cross...
The United Nations and its partners have called on countries to take urgent action to address what they describe as the “infodemic” around the COVID-19 pandemic...