Ethiopia’s COVID-19 Cases Rise To 85 (April 15, 2020)

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 one of them having travel history to the United States (US), according to the Ministry of Health.

The other two have exposure to patients with confirmed COVID-19 cases, it added.

Ethiopia has so far registered three deaths and 15 recoveries from the virus.

According to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University, more than 1.9 million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally.

Nearly 127,000 people have died and more than 486,000 have recovered from the virus.