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Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country reached 100,327, after 345 new cases were reported.
According to the ministry, the new cases were discovered out of 4,360 medical tests for COVID-19 that were conducted in the East African country during the past 24 hours.
Ethiopia had conducted 1,534,470 medical tests for COVID-19 so far, it was noted.
The ministry also revealed that the number of COVID-19-related deaths in the country reached 1,537 as of Monday, after seven new COVID-19-related deaths were reported during the last 24-hour period.
The ministry said some 61,516 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 had recovered so far, including 806 in the past 24 hours.
Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is currently the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 50 percent of all confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to the ministry.
About 61 percent of all COVID-19 cases in the East African country are men.
According to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, the death rate from COVID-19 is 1.52 percent, while 51.9 percent of all COVID-19 deaths occurred in the 60+ age group.
Meanwhile, 57 percent of all COVID-19 cases are in the 15-34 age group.
The ministry also said that 63.1 percent of all COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic.
Ethiopia confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on March 13.
Ethiopia, the second most populous nation in Africa with approximately 107 million people, has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the East African region.
The East African country is the fourth country most affected by COVID-19 on the African continent, second only to South Africa, Morocco and Egypt.
As of Tuesday night, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the African continent reached 1,894,367, while the death toll from the pandemic reached 45,647, the African Centers for Control and Control said. Disease Prevention.
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