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Senior WHO official says agency only has supplies in Afghanistan for one week

FILE PHOTO: A patient suffering from COVID-19 receives treatment at the Afghan-Japan Hospital, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kabul, Afghanistan June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

The World Health Organization (WHO) only has enough supplies in Afghanistan to last for one week, a senior regional official said on Tuesday.

The U.N. agency was also concerned that the current upheaval could lead to a spike in COVID-19 infections, Ahmed Al-Mandhari told a press briefing.

(Reporting by Nafisa Eltahir and Aidan Lewis; Editing by Edmund Blair)

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