All but five of the 38 hospitals that treated COVID-19 in Afghanistan have been forced to close recently for lack of doctors, medicines and even heat.
Afghanistan’s bitter winter cold has international aid organizations scrambling to try to help millions of people who have neither food nor fuel.
The WHO says that, between Jan. 30 and Feb. 5, public laboratories in Afghanistan tested 8,496 samples, of which nearly half were positive for COVID-19. Those numbers translate into a 47.4% positivity rate, the world health body said. With 3.2 million vaccine doses in stock, Hazhir said the government has launched a campaign through mosques, clerics and mobile vaccine clinics to get more people inoculated. Currently, barely 27% of Afghanistan’s 38 million people have been vaccinated, most with the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
Even in the Afghan Japan hospital, where signs warn people that mask-wearing is mandatory, most people in the dimly lit halls were without them. In the intensive care unit, where half of the 10 patients in the ward were on ventilators, doctors and attendants wore only surgical masks and gowns for protection as they moved from bed to bed.
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