Ethiopian ministry of health reported 137 confirmed cases of covid 19 in one day
Out of 5015 test, Ethiopian ministry of health reported 137 confirmed cases of covid 19, another new highest record in 24 hours. 109 cases has no contact with any one from abroad or has no travel history out side the country. among the confirmed cases 86 of them are male and 51 are female, their age renge is from 4 to 75 years old. The total confirmed cases in Ethiopia as of today is 968. a 62 years old man with underlining health condition has also passed, bringing to number
9 health care workers abducted, killed in Somalia
Nine health care workers were killed and their bodies dumped along a highway, officials said Thursday. "[Nine] health workers in Gololeey vicinity health clinic were abducted last night by unknown forces. Their bodies have been dumped on the highway near Gololeey. They have been slaughtered all. They were working for Zamzam Humanitarian agency! So tragic indeed,” a Bal'ad district security official told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity. A police officer in middle Shab
Ethiopia coronavirus: field hospital on Addis outskirts nears completion
Ethiopia is one of East / Horn of Africa’s least impacted nations as compared to rate ofCOVID-19 case growth and infection of its neighbours. A state of emergency lasting five-months has been imposed by the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed led government. All land borders have since been shut as a virus control measure with a raft of restrictions and enforcement of physical distancing and mask wearing measures. Elections planned for May this year were also postponed citing the effec
Ethiopia records highest daily increase as 100 new COVID-19 cases confirmed
ADDIS ABABA, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia's confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 831 after 100 more cases were confirmed, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health said in a statement on Thursday. This is so far the highest daily increase in the Horn of Africa country. The Ethiopian Ministry of Health, in a statement issued on Thursday, revealed that from the total of 4,950 medical tests that were conducted in the last 24 hours, 100 of them tested positive for COVID-19, eventually bringing
Ethiopian political forces unite around Nile dam
Ethiopia upholds principles of equitable and reasonable utilization of Nile water, says foreign minister Leaders of political parties in Ethiopia on Wednesday met government officials and members of the National Committee for Coordination of Public Participation on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project. “We need not focus on our differences right now but join forces in our support to our dam,” said Mussa Adem, chairman of the Ethiopian Political Parties Joint Cou
Somalia’s Covid-19 cases drop as 22 new infections recorded
Somalia has announced 22 new Covid-19 cases, amid drop in infections in the country, especially in the capital, Mogadishu, which was previously the epicentre of the novel Coronavirus in the Horn of Africa nation. Somalia’s Minister of Health and Social Care Fowziya Abikar Nur, announced that 14 of the new cases were recorded in the breakaway region of Somaliland, five in Banadir region (Mogadishu and its environs) and one each in South West, Jubbaland and Hirshaballe states.
Ethiopia: 30,000 violence-exiled people return
Upon return, internally displaced people also demand government give assurances of their safety More than 30,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in western Ethiopia have been brought back to their homes after two years of living in camps in the adjoining Amhara region, said local media. Over the last two years violence displaced more than 49,000 people from their homes in the Metekel Zone in the Benishangul Gumuz state, the Amhara Mass Media Agency (AMMA) reported on Tuesd
Ethiopia’s confirmed COVID-19 cases surpass 700
Ethiopia’s confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 701 after 46 more patients were confirmed, the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) said in a statement on Tuesday. According to figures from FMoH, the 46 new COVID-19 cases consist of 45 Ethiopians and one foreign national. The ministry said that eight more patients who tested positive for COVID-19 recovered on Tuesday, raising the total numbers of recoveries to 167. The ministry also disclosed a 32-year-old Ethiopian nation
