Taliban, coronavirus, crippling economy, floods, rising unemplyment and limited resources: Afghanistan has been one of the worst-hit countries this year. As the pandemic and the floods hit the country, locals lost their paid and season jobs, and had to turn to the next best solution.

Afghan children and unemployed turn to opium for quick cash

The coronavirus is pushing millions more Afghans into poverty, overwhelming Afghanistan's basic health care system and exacerbating food insecurity in one of the world's poorest countries, a US watchdog said Friday.

Coronavirus pushing millions more Afghans into poverty: US watchdog

Afghanistan is running out of hospital beds as suspected cases of coronavirus surge, officials said on Saturday, warning "there is a disaster coming" in the impoverished country.

Afghanistan warns of 'disaster' as virus infections surge

15 people have been killed while 45 wounded and 80 patients have been evacuated from a hospital in Kabul after gunmen attacked it on Tuesday, according to a spokesman for Afghanistan's interior ministry.

15 people killed, several wounded after gunmen storm Kabul hospital

The World Bank on Friday approved a USD 400 million grant to help Afghanistan "sustain the pace of key economic and public finance reforms and support the country to manage current risks and uncertainties compounded by the COVID-19 crisis.

World Bank approves $400 million loan to help Afghanistan deal with COVID-19 crisis

A total of 168 new positive cases of coronavirus have been reported in Afghanistan. The country's deputy minister of public health Wahid Majroh on Wednesday said that in the past 24 hours 168 positive cases have been recorded, and the country`s total is 3,392, TOLO news reported.

Afghanistan reports 168 new COVID-19 cases, count rises to 3,392

At least 30 new positive coronavirus cases have been reported in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, taking the total to 1,026 on Monday, health authorities were quoted by Tolo News.

Afghanistan's coronavirus cases climb to 1,026

Just about when it seemed that the 40-year-old war would end and Afghanistan may witness some sort of a political settlement, the coronavirus outbreak took the country by surprise.

Now, Afghanistan to battle coronavirus with crumbling health infrastructure

Afghan health authorities said that 56 six new cases of coronavirus were reported in the country, taking the total tally of positive cases to 423. Citing the data compiled by the Ministry of Public Health over the past 24 hours, TOLOnews reported that Herat has registered 27 new cases, 12 in Kabul, 10 in Kandahar, five cases in Balkh and two in Nangarhar.

Afghanistan registers 56 new COVID-19 cases, tally surges to 423

The government today prohibited travel of passengers from Afghanistan, Philippines and Malaysia to India till March 31 amid the coronavirus outbreak. Also Read: 64-year-old dies in Mumbai, third death due to coronavirus in India The order is due to come into effect immediately, the government said.

India prohibits passengers from Afghanistan, Philippines and Malaysia over coronavirus

Nearly 70,000 Afghans have returned from virus-hit Iran in the past 20 days, an official said Monday, overwhelming health workers at border crossings and raising fears of a major outbreak in the impoverished country.

COVID-19: Thousands of Afghans return from Iran as virus hits economy

A new case of coronavirus positive patient was reported in Herat province of north-western Afghanistan which mounted the total number of cases related to the viral infection to 11 on Saturday.

Coronavirus cases rise to 11 in Afghanistan

One positive case of the deadly coronavirus was registered in northern Samangan province, the Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday, which brings the total number of confirmed cases in Afghanistan to five, as per media reports.

Coronavirus cases rise to 5 in Afghanistan, confirms Health Ministry

Pakistan has a total of six confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The third patient who tested positive in Karachi is a 69-year-old who had recently returned from Iran, said Meeran Yousuf, spokesperson of the Sindh health department to WION.

Pakistan confirms sixth coronavirus case, 823 quarantined in Sindh

With porous borders, creaking hospitals and large illiterate populations, Afghanistan and Pakistan face a potentially devastating health crisis after the new coronavirus erupted in neighbouring Iran.

'Fear and panic' as virus threatens Afghanistan, Pakistan