Ethiopia records highest single-day COVID-19 case spike

Addis Ababa, June 4, 2020 (FBC) –Ethiopia recorded 150 new cases of the coronavirus, out of the 5,141 laboratory tests conducted in the past 24 hours.

With this, the total number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 1,636.

Of the total new confirmed cases, 94 are male and 56 are female aged between 3 and 72 years.

Some 147 of the confirmed cases are Ethiopians, while the remaining three are citizens of the United States.

Of the new cases, 123  are from Addis Ababa, two from Tigray, one from Afar, two from Oromia, three from SNNP, 13 from Amhara and six from Somali regional states.

A 30-year-old man also died of the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 18.The number of recoveries reached 250 after four people recovered from the virus.

Ethiopia has so far conducted a total of 125, 570 laboratory tests.

There are now a total of 1,366 active cases in Ethiopia, with 16 of them in a severe condition.

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