On Youtube, CBC News: The National shows that the Canadian federal government is quietly shuttering the Special Immigration Measures program to bring over Afghans who worked with Canada during the war. It has advocates worried about the people who could be left behind, and the danger facing them.
CBC News shows that more than 1,000 Afghans have been flown out on 12 Canadian flights thus far. Canadian Forces are not bringing people into this country without legitimate documentation, unlike the USA and U.K., says a former Afghan interpreter.
Al Jazeera shows that as hospital beds fill up in the only hospital treating the coronavirus in the Afghan capital of Kabul, there are fears that a spike in the number of Coronavirus cases could be straining its fragile health system.
Testing, data and knowledge about the deadly virus are scant and many Afghans cannot afford face masks, despite the millions of dollars in aid given to help contain the Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic outbreak.
Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases Overview:
Afghanistan:
Total cases: 50,433
Recovered: 39,692
Deaths: 2,117
Worldwide:
Total cases: 79.3M
Recovered: 44.7M
Deaths: 1.74M
Afghanistan is officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. This is really a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast. Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a large mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks.
It seems that humans lived in what is now Afghanistan at least 50,000 years ago. Settled life emerged in the region 9,000 years ago, evolving gradually into the Indus civilization (Shortugai site), the Oxus civilization (Dashlyji site), and the Helmand civilization (Mundigak site) of the 3rd millennium BCE.
Afghanistan's Coronavirus Covid-19 death toll has reached 193. Afghanistan has total confirmed virus cases of 8,676. There have been 938 recoveries.
On Thursday, the Health Ministry reported 531 new cases and 6 deaths.
Unfortunately, coronavirus cases are soaring in Afghanistan. The people need to avoid an imminent catastrophe. People are being urged to end rampant lockdown violations. Restrictions have been extended in Kabul province. The Health Minister is making a strong recommendation for people to stay home during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, this weekend.
It's sure important to follow the COVID-19 safety guidelines.
Afghanistan is very likely to extend its nationwide lockdown, which ends on May 24.
Restrictions were extended in Kabul, the country’s most affected area.
The following information is according to the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Total Global Confirmed Cases: 5,101,400
Countries with most confirmed cases:
1,576,886 USA
317,554 Russia
310,087 Brazil
252,246 United Kingdom
233,037 Spain
228,006 Italy
181,951 France
179,021 Germany
153,548 Turkey
129,341 Iran
118,226 India
108,769 Peru
84,063 China
82,742 Canada
65,077 Saudi Arabia
59,567 Mexico
57,581 Chile
56,235 Belgium
48,091 Pakistan
44,900 Netherlands
38,651 Qatar
35,306 Ecuador
33,371 Belarus
32,172 Sweden
