Afghan officials warned on Saturday of a "coming disaster", as the absorptive capacity of the country's hospitals has reached its maximum level due to the increase in the number of new infections of Corona virus.
And the health authorities in Afghanistan announced the registration of 761 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of cases recorded in the country to 19,551 cases.
Afghan Health Minister Ahmad Jawad Othmani said in a press conference that the occupancy rate of "the (hospital) family is about to reach its maximum level, very soon we will not have any capacity" to receive more patients.
Officials said the number of casualties exceeded expectations, especially in the capital, Kabul, the main epicenter of the epidemic in the country.
In a joint press conference with the Minister of Health, Kabul provincial governor Muhammad Yaqoub Haidari said, "There is a disaster coming."
He said the number of Covid-19 casualties in Kabul alone could exceed one million.
To date, the country has recorded 327 epidemic deaths.
"We have reports of an increase in deaths suspected of being caused by the epidemic, and of nocturnal burial of bodies," Heydari said.
He continued, "We fill between ten and 15 ambulances with the dead every day."
Despite the total closure imposed by the authorities, cases of Covid-19 increased, amid great disregard for the measures by residents, who are predominantly daily and prefer to risk the disease over a working day's loss.
However, the minister said that starting from Sunday, the authorities will toughen their enforcement of masks and social estrangement for the next three months to curb the spread of the virus.