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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed held a virtual conference today with the sub-committee heads of the high-level National COVID-19 Ministerial Committee to assess activity performance and determine if additional assignments are required. According to the Office of the Prime Minister, COVID-19 prevention and containment efforts have progressed with incremental actions through each of the sub-committees. However, based on […]

Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed held phone talks with Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of EU Commission. The Prime Minister said on Twitter that they discussed challenges faced due to coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Ministry of Health and Ethiopia Public Health Institute unveiled a suite of new digital health tools that are built on top of DHIS2 to enhance surveillance, monitoring and tracking of coronavirus cases in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new systems were developed with support from USAID’s Digital Health Activity, the Bill and Melinda […]

Addis Ababa City Administration on Sunday has disinfected the city’s main streets as part of prevention and containment of the spread of COVID-19. As health workers and governments around the world work to slow the spread of COVID-19, large-scale disinfection efforts are becoming commonplace. According to Office of the Mayor, in an effort to fight […]

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom held telephone conversation about the critical support Africa needs in combating COVID-19 yesterday.  During the phone call Abiy thanked Tedros and the team at WHO for their leadership in these times of hardship and the solidarity to support Ethiopia and Africa.