The Jack Ma and Alibaba Foundations said they will make a third donation of medical equipment to the African Union (AU) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to assist African nations in the fight against COVID-19. The medical supplies include 4.6m masks, 500,000 swabs and test kits, 300 ventilators, 200,000 clothing sets, 200,000 […]
Ethiopia has confirmed three new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), out of the 396 samples tested over the past 24 hours. This brings the total cases in the country to 111. All the three confirmed cases are Ethiopian nationals residing in Dire Dawa city, according to the Ministry of Health. Two of them have travel history […]
Nine more people have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total confirmed cases in Ethiopia to 105. The county had conducted laboratory test on 659 samples over the past 24 hours. The newly confirmed cases include eight Ethiopians and an Equatorial Guinea national, according to the Ministry of Health. Six of the confirmed cases […]
Prime Minister Dr Aby Ahmed today issued his Easter message. Ethiopian Christians celebrate Easter, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, tomorrow. In his address to the faithful, the Prime Minister said “on Easter festivity, something occurs to our mind, we know joy follows pain and darkness, light” He said “we are now at a time of […]
Procured by UNICEF Ethiopia with a financial assistance from DFID, the first consignment of medical supplies arrived at the Addis Ababa Bole Airport this morning. The medical supplies include masks, surgical gowns, face shields, coveralls and others medical equipment, UNICEF Ethiopia tweeted. The medical supplies will be delivered to the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) […]
Four more Ethiopians have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total confirmed cases to 96. The newly confirmed cases are out of the 842 samples tasted over the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health. Ethiopia has so far registered three deaths and 15 recoveries from the virus. According to the latest […]
Ethiopia has registered seven new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases out of the 401 samples tasted over the past 24 hours. The total number of confirmed cases in the country has now reached 92. All today’s confirmed cases are Ethiopian nationals, according to the Ministry of Health. Six of them have travel history abroad. Ethiopia has so […]
A Chinese anti-pandemic medical expert team, dispatched by the government of China has arrived in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa this afternoon. The team is selected by the provincial health committee of Sichuan, said the Embassy of China in Ethiopia in a statement sent to FBC today. They are among the very first batch of […]
Ethiopia has registered three more coronavirus (COVID-19) cases out of the 431 samples tasted over the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 85. All the three confirmed cases are Ethiopian nationals, according to the Ministry of Health. All the three confirmed cases are Ethiopian nationals, only […]
The number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases across the world has reached two million. That’s according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking infections and deaths around the world. More than 600,000 cases have been recorded in the US alone, while 128,000 people have died globally. The true number of infections is […]