Ethiopia records highest daily increase as 137 new COVID-19 cases confirmed

By: Mohamad Duale twitter: @MoDuale

Ethiopia’s confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 968 after 137 more cases were confirmed, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health said in a statement on Friday.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Health, in a statement issued on Friday, revealed that from the total of  5,015 medical tests that were conducted in the last 24 hours, 137 of them tested positive for COVID-19, eventually bringing the total number of cases to 968.

All the new cases are Ethiopians their age range from 4 to 75 years old, and 86 of them are male and the remaining 51 are female, the Ministry disclosed.

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The total laboratory tests conducted within 24 hours are 5015; of these 137 of them are confirmed positive for COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/sSVtRjrEjW

— Ministry of Health ETHIOPIA (@FMoHealth) May 29, 2020

This is so far the highest daily increase in the Horn of Africa country.

The ministry also said that 197 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have so far recovered from the virus.

The ministry also disclosed One individual who was receiving treatment for other diseases has died from coronavirus while his sample test was under-diagnosis taking the death toll to 8 in the country.

Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation with about 107 million people, confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on March 13.