Ethiopia is one of East / Horn of Africa’s least impacted nations as compared to rate of COVID-19 case growth and infection of its neighbours.
May 24: 193 cases in 5 days as tally hits 582
Ethiopia has recorded back-to-back one-day spikes, record 61 new cases on Saturday and a further 81 on Sunday toppling the Saturday record.
Ethiopia’s tally has therefore jumped by 193 new cases in a space of five days.
Total confirmed cases = 582 (new cases = 88)
Total recoveries = 152 (new recoveries = 8)
Total deaths = 5
Active cases = 423
Trajectory of infections between May 20 – 24
May 20: 389 (24 new cases)
May 21: 398 (9 new cases)
May 22: 399 (10 new cases)
May 22: 433 (34 new cases)
May 23: 494 (61 new cases)
May 24: 582 (88 new cases)
May 19: 365 cases with 60 new cases in three days
Total confirmed cases = 365 (new cases between May 17 – 19 = 60)
Total recoveries = 120 (new recoveries = 8)
Total deaths = 5
Active cases = 238
Ethiopia’s case count spiked on Monday by 35 new cases (a daily record) whiles 14 new cases were recorded today.
Major African stats: May 19 at 6:00 GMT:
Confirmed cases = 88,264
Number of deaths = 2,832
Recoveries = 33,898
Active cases = 51,534
