Date	|	Description	Link
2020-07-06		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system The foundation of coronavirus hospital has been set for 65 million Afghans.
2020-07-01		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system The-bed hospital in Barchi plain was opened
2020-06-24		Movement restrictions: International flights suspension the Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority announced some airlines (Emirates, Turkish, Ariana and Kam) have resumed services.
2020-05-14		Movement restrictions: Border closure  The Government of Afghanistan has re-opened its border with Iran, which had been closed briefly to all air and ground travel.
2020-05-12		Public health measures: Awareness campaigns General hygiene campaign
2020-04-07		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system A COVID-19 lab is opened using Government of Afghanistan funds. The hospital is expected to be completed on or about April 7.
2020-04-03		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system Machines for health care were sent to Herat Province today
2020-04-02		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system Supplies from China received today
2020-04-01		Movement restrictions: International flights suspension international flight suspension
2020-03-31		Social distancing: Changes in prison-related policies Releases Hundreds of Prisoners to Limit Coronavirus Outbreaks
2020-03-30		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system 2nd diagnostic lab opened today
2020-03-28		Public health measures: General recommendations U.S.A. is added to the list of countries that, if you’ve traveled there in the past 2 weeks, you could have the virus.
2020-03-28		Public health measures: General recommendations MoPH asks people not to come to health center for testing because it wastes resources and risks contracting the virus from an actual sick person at the facility. They ask those people who may have been in contact with this virus who have not seen symptoms to self-isolate for 14 days & contact provincial health teams if they have fever, cough, or problems breathing.
2020-03-28		Lockdown: Partial lockdown The Afghan Ministries of Public Health and Interior jointly announced that the city of Kabul would be placed on lockdown for 21 days due to spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Residents may only move outside their homes to obtain essential food and medicine; and provide caregiving. According to the government, vehicles carrying more than four passengers, as well as buses, are prohibited from traveling in and out of Kabul.
2020-03-25		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system Call for more health care workers to be employed by the government in the fight against covid-19
2020-03-22		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system In addition to the National Public Health Lab in Kabul, an additional lab in Herat began COVID-19 testing on March 22, and a lab in Mazar-e-Sharif is planned to begin operations soon. Total testing capacity once the additional labs are operating is expected to be 150-250 tests per day.
2020-03-22		Social distancing: Limit public gatherings People should avoid official and non-official protests (gatherings?) to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
2020-03-20		Socio-economic measures: State of emergency declared "Emergency state" announced but people are not cooperating in Herat
2020-03-19		Movement restrictions: Surveillance and monitoring If you have come back from the countries of Iran, China, Italy and South Korea within the last 2 weeks, or you have been in touch with people who have returned from these countries and have a fever, cough, loss and breath at this number. Please get in touch so that the health teams of the ministry of public health will help you too.
2020-03-19		Public health measures: Health screenings in airports and border crossings Installed new heat censor machines to detect fever at passengers coming through ports of entry into the country and ports into and out of Herat Province (the epicenter of the outbreak in Afghanistan, at this point in time).
2020-03-19		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system Coronavirus diagnostic lab was opened in Herat Province
2020-03-15		Social distancing: Schools closure  School closures until "the end of the month" (Afghanistan uses the Solar Hijri calendar)
2020-03-12		Social distancing: Limit public gatherings Nevruz festival cancelled
2020-03-11		Public health measures: Awareness campaigns New awareness campaign to "prevent the spread of coronavirus"
2020-03-07		Public health measures: Other public health measures enforced Sanitizing public spaces
2020-03-05		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system The Ministry of Public Health has used 97 % of its budget which was 16 billion afghani. Creating 100 new health centers in needed places, increase 1600 bed in health centers, cover of 930 thousand children live in health centers. 50,000 diagnostic kits + 50,000 diagnostic kits from Arab Emirates
2020-03-02		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system Medical students are now allowed to practice, in order to build capacity
2020-03-01		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system
2020-03-01		Socio-economic measures: Limit product imports/exports Food imports from Iran and Afghanistan has been limited
2020-03-01		Movement restrictions: Border checks  Increased the screened teams on the ground and air border, especially the provinces of the border with Iran to identify the people with this virus (Midday Province).
2020-03-01		Social distancing: Schools closure
2020-03-01		Social distancing: Limit public gatherings all public gatherings banned
2020-02-24		Socio-economic measures: State of emergency declared State of emergency in Herat province.
2020-02-24		Movement restrictions: Border closure  Closure of borders with Iran
2020-02-24		Public health measures: Awareness campaigns Awareness campaign expands to include avoiding kissing, weddings, meetings, funerals, and other social luxuries.
2020-02-24		Public health measures: General recommendations Those who have traveled to Iran in the last month, especially in the city, if they are having fever, cough and breath, soon visit one of the health centers or Call on 166 so that the health teams can help them.
2020-02-24		Movement restrictions: Domestic travel restrictions Avoid domestic travel to the Herat province.
2020-02-22		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system Prioritizing disinfecting of health centers and early-response needs. Provide more training for health care workers on how to keep themselves safe.
2020-02-20		Public health measures: Other public health measures enforced strengthen the screened teams in the air, borders and port, creating a joint committee to review the risk of transmitting coronavirus through iimported items
2020-02-13		Movement restrictions: Surveillance and monitoring Monitoring and surveillance increased at nationwide hospitals to improve the quality of health services
2020-02-12		Socio-economic measures: Emergency administrative structures activated or established
2020-02-12		Public health measures: Health screenings in airports and border crossings
2020-02-12		Public health measures: Awareness campaigns
2020-02-12		Public health measures: Isolation and quarantine policies Established specific areas for quarantine in Kabul and in the provinces for the control of COVID-19
2020-02-12		Public health measures: Isolation and quarantine policies
2020-02-08		Public health measures: Awareness campaigns the launch of education programs for doctors to handle COVID-19
2020-02-06		Socio-economic measures: Emergency administrative structures activated or established review list of equipment, medical requirements for health facilities and increase of supplies, the list of health staff and services of the Afghan-Japan hospital and the order list of the necessary items.
2020-02-04		Public health measures: Awareness campaigns Print, publishing and sending advertising materials about health services. Publishing messages in hospitals, building video guidance at ports of entry, making a clear part of the passengers’s location, creating a clear section on the ministry’s website to publish the content related to coronavirus.
2020-02-04		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system The Ministry of public health has created the special part of the control of the "Corona" virus in the Afghan-Japan hospital. This section has a hundred bed filled with all facilities.
2020-02-02		Public health measures: Strengthening the public health system the ministry has prepared 100 bed to control this virus in Kabul and 200 others in the province hospital with all the facilities needed in the country.
2020-02-02		Public health measures: Isolation and quarantine policies
2020-02-01		Movement restrictions: Border checks  All China and Iran nationals
2020-01-27		Movement restrictions: International flights suspension Flights to China are suspended.
2020-01-27		Public health measures: Health screenings in airports and border crossings Health screenings of all passengers at airports.
2020-01-26		Public health measures: Health screenings in airports and border crossings Health teams at airports will check passengers coming from China.
2020-01-24		Public health measures: Awareness campaigns MoPH begins announcements on their facebook to make public aware of coronavirus.