Covid infections in Afghanistan getting out of control - Newspaper
Residents, wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, line up to receive the Sinopharm Covid vaccine at a vaccination center, in Kabul on June 16. — AP KABUL: The Covid-19 pandemic is spiralling out of control in Afghanistan, with cases rising 2,400 percent in the past month, hospitals filling up and medical resources quickly running out, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Thursday. More than a third of tests last week came back positive, the IFRC said. “Afghanistan is at a crisis point in the battle to contain Covid-19 as hosp...