The radical Taliban militant group that came to power in Afghanistan expects Russia’s help in tackling the pandemic in the country, a TASS-appointed health ministry spokesman told TASS on Friday. Taliban, Javid Khazir.

“Today, many countries, including Russia, are providing humanitarian aid to Afghanistan,” the spokesman said. “Of course, we are waiting for help from Russia in many areas, especially in the health sector and help in the fight against it,” he said.

As a spokesman for the Afghan Health Ministry pointed out, the lack of funds has been a major obstacle in the current period of the spread of the novel as foreign organizations have really stopped providing aid and the country “does not have enough budget and equipment”. To fight the pandemic on his own.”

The health sector in Afghanistan remains extremely tense due to shortage of essential medicines and shortage of specialists. According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 157,000 cases have been identified in the country with a population of about 39 million people and 7,317 of them have died. The Taliban-appointed government does not regularly monitor the situation, although this monitoring does not exist in some areas.

The radical Taliban terrorist group (banned in Russia) launched a full-scale offensive to take control of Afghanistan after the United States announced its intention to withdraw its troops from the country in the spring of this year.

On 15 August, the Taliban entered Kabul without resistance, while Afghan President Ashraf Ghani resigned and fled the country. The Taliban announced on 6 September that they had established control over the whole of Afghanistan, and on 7 September they announced an interim government in Afghanistan that has not yet been recognized by any country.