• 8 people die due to COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, while 208 others recover

The number of novel coronavirus cases in Ethiopia passed 1,000 people, according to official data Saturday.

According to the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) data, 95 additional cases of coronavirus have been confirmed across the country on Saturday, raising the total numbers of confirmed cases to 1,063. FMoH revealed that from the total of 5,034 medical tests that were conducted in the last 24 hours, 95 of them tested positive for COVID-19, eventually bringing the total number of cases to 1063. All of the people confirmed for COVID-19 are Ethiopians, except one Indian national.Among the cases, 56 of them are identified from Addis Ababa, twenty-two from the Oromia region, three from Tigray Region, five from the Amhara region, one from the Afar region, three from Harari region, two from Dire Dawa and three from Somali region. Thirty of the cases have travel history from abroad, four having contact with confirmed cases, the statement reads. The remaining sixty-one have neither a travel history nor known contact traces.

Of the cases, seventy-one are male and twenty-four are female, with the youngest being fifteen years old and the oldest eighty years, according to a statment by FMoH.

The country has so far reported 208 recoveries and 8 deaths.