Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan

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This article documents the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan.

Contents

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Afghanistan when its index case, in Herat, was confirmed on 24 February 2020. [1]

COVID-19 cases in Afghanistan  ()
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2020-11-05
2020-11-06
2020-11-07
2020-11-08
2020-11-09
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Cases: The number of non-repatriated cases reported by the Government
Sources: Various news sources and state health department websites. See Timeline Table and Timeline narrative for sources.

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Map of provinces with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Afghanistan by 29 March 2020.
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Map of provinces with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Afghanistan by 29 March 2020.
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29 November

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January 2021

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February 2021

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May 2021

In May, Afghanistan entered the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. [272]

June 2021

On 12 June, UNAMA announced that an additional 468,000 doses of the AstraZeneca will be provided to Afghanistan. [273]

July 2021

UNDARK reported that the Afghanistan conflict "hindered the country’s Covid response", especially in Kandahar. [274] [ unreliable source? ]

August 2021

According to a report by Shamshad News, the Taliban banned use of COVID-19 vaccines in the Paktia regional hospital. [275] [ unreliable source? ]

Following the Fall of Kabul on 15 August (marking the collapse of the previous government of Afghanistan [276] [ clarification needed ]) the WHO and medical experts[ who? ] feared a potential "rapid and uncontrolled spread of COVID-19". [277] [278] [ unreliable source? ] The week after the fall of Kabul, COVID-19 tests decreased by 77% and COVID-19 vaccinations decreased by 80% compared to the week before. [279] [280]

September 2021

On 3 September, Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban, stated that China will "increase its humanitarian assistance, especially for treatment of COVID-19". [281]

October 2021

Starting from 9 October, Taliban officials and United States of America representatives held talks in Doha, Qatar. Afghanistan's acting foreign minister  Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi stated that the Afghan delegation focused on humanitarian aid and that the US would offer COVID-19 vaccines to the Afghan people. [282] [ relevant? ]

As of 30 October, nearly 40,000 people in Afghanistan received COVID-19 vaccines per day. [283]

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi urged the World Health Organization to give more vaccines and medical supplies to aid Afghanistan in fighting COVID-19. [284] [285] [ relevant? ]

November 2021

The United Nations Development Programme, with an agreement with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has provided[ clarification needed ] $15 million[ clarification needed ] to prevent the collapse of Afghanistan's health system, paying for medicines, health supplies, and healthcare workers' salaries. [286] [ relevant? ]

December 2021

On 3 December, the "Ministry of Public Health (MoPH)"[ clarification needed ] stated that there were no cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant so far in Afghanistan, but urged international assistance. [287] [ clarification needed ]

On 8 December, about 800,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Afghanistan, with 200,000 to arrive[ needs update ]the next day. [288] [289] Wang Yu[ who? ] also said that China has "announced another three million doses of vaccine to Afghanistan". [288] Abdul Bari Omar, the Afghan deputy minister of health services, also said that pregnant women and children could take COVID-19 vaccines. [288]

On 11 December, India sent "1.6 metric tonne of life-saving medicines"[ which? ] to Afghanistan, the first assistance it gave since the fall of Kabul. [290] India made a commitment to provide the Afghan people "50,000 MT of wheat, essential lifesaving medicines and COVID-19 vaccines". [290]

On 16 December, the Associated Press reported that the "Afghan-Japan hospital for communicable diseases", the only hospital to treat COVID-19 for people in Kabul, had run out of resources such as diesel fuel (to produce oxygen for patients), drug supplies, and examination gloves. [291]

January 2022

On 11 January, the White House announced that it was providing Afghanistan with a million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX. [292]

February 2022

Almost half of the 8,496 samples that public laboratories in Afghanistan tested between 30 January and 5 February tested positive for COVID-19, for a 47.4% positivity rate. [293] With 33 other hospitals in Afghanistan having closed, only 5 hospitals there still offered treatment for COVID-19. [293] About 27% of Afghanistan's people had been vaccinated, most with the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. [293]

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