Ethiopia reports 8 new COVID-19 cases

Addis Ababa, April 14, 2020 (FBC) – The Ministry of Health has reported 8 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) out of the 447 samples tested over the past 24 hours.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 82.

Five of today’s confirmed cases are Ethiopians and the other three are Eritrean, Somali and British nationals.

The country has so far reported three deaths and 14 recoveries from the virus.

According to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University, more than 1.9 million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally.

Nearly 120,000 people have died and more than 453,000 have recovered from the virus.