Ethiopia`s Covid-19 Cases Surpass 258,000 Mark
Ministry of Health of Ethiopia announced on Sunday 2nd May that the number of Covid-19 cases in the country had risen to surpass the 258,000 mark.
Gathua Josephat 
Ethiopia`s Ministry Of Health stated that as of Sunday evening, Ethiopia registered 322 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours taking the nationwide tally to 258,384.
Meanwhile, 17 new deaths from COVID-19 were reported during the same period, bringing the national death toll to 3,726, the ministry said.
The East African country reported 360 more recoveries, taking the national count of COVID-19 recoveries to 200,508.
According to the ministry, Ethiopia currently has some 54,148 active COVID-19 cases, of whom 883 are under severe health conditions.
Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, has so far reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the East Africa region and is the fourth most COVID-19-affected country in Africa in terms of positive cases.
The latest figures from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that Ethiopia’s COVID-19 cases account for about 5 percent of the African continent’s total confirmed cases.
