Romania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Afghanistan have all reported their first deaths from the novel coronavirus as the global tally reached nearly 12,000.
A major breakthrough in China's three-month epidemiological battle against the coronavirus came on March 18 when no local infections were reported.
A Pakistani doctor who screened suspected coronavirus patients has died after testing positive for the virus, highlighting the danger to physicians who have threatened to strike unless access to protection equipment improves.
Afghanistan reported its first fatality due to the novel coronavirus, after a man died in the north of the impoverished and war-torn country on March 22.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging Pakistan to take “immediate and urgent” steps to ensure that prisoners and detainees have access to adequate medical care and protective measures against the coronavirus.
At least 24 Afghan security forces were killed early on March 20 in an insider attack on their base in southern Zabul Province, officials say.
Authorities in northwestern Pakistan are scrambling to lock down a rural community after one of the first reported deaths attributed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 9,000 people globally.
The United States said the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban should begin prisoner releases “as soon as possible,” adding that the global coronavirus pandemic is adding to the urgency.
When Mrinal Sabharwal and his wife landed in New Delhi with hundreds of other passengers from Barcelona, they expected clean coronavirus quarantine facilities.
The global coronavirus pandemic has infected nearly 200,000 people worldwide, causing mass disruptions as governments continue trying to slow the spread of the new respiratory illness.
Balochistan bordering Iran and Afghanistan is now ill-prepared to face the coronavirus pandemic that has already killed some 1,000 people in Iran as the country suffers the third-highest infection rates following China and Italy.
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