KABUL: Mohammad Yousuf Ghazanfar, special adviser of Afghanistan’s president on economic development, trade and poverty reduction died of COVID-19 on Friday, the Presidential Palace said in a statement on Saturday.

Yousuf Ghazanfar, who had been infected with novel coronavirus recently, was shifted to Turkey days ago and died at a hospital there, international media reports said.

As many as 819 people have died of COVID-19 out of more than 32,000 positive cases registered so far in Afghanistan since the outbreak of the pandemic in February in the country.

(With inputs from agencies)