By Gistflash
June 15, 2021
June 15, 2021
Ethiopia registered 159 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 274,346 as of Monday night, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.
The ministry said eight new deaths and 443 more recoveries were reported, bringing the national counts to 4,250 and 251,107 respectively.
Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, has so far reported the largest number of COVID-19 cases in the East Africa region.
Figures from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention showed that Ethiopia’s COVID-19 cases accounted for about six per cent of Africa’s total.
Ethiopia is among the countries hardest hit by COVID-19 in Africa, following South Africa, Morocco, and Tunisia.
Xinhua/NAN
