Ethiopian Informer
ADDIS ABABA, May 8 (EI) — The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Friday disclosed the deployment of a twenty-member anti-pandemic experts’ team to support Ethiopia’s COVID-19 response efforts.
“The Africa CDC deploys 20 experts to support COVID-19 response in Ethiopia. The experts included epidemiologists, and laboratory scientists have received deployment orientation today at the headquarters of the Africa CDC in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa,” the Africa CDC disclosed in a statement issued on Friday.
The move by the Africa CDC, came as the East African country on Thursday announced that the confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 187 after 25 more people were confirmed to be infected on Thursday.
This is so far the largest daily single number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ethiopia, Africa’s second populous nation with over 107 million total population.
According to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, from the total of 1,847 medical tests that were conducted in the last 24 hours, 25 of them tested positive for COVID-19, eventually bringing the total number of cases to 187.
All the 25 new COVID-19 cases are Ethiopian nationals, 24 males and one female, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health said. Some 93 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have so far recovered from the virus, it was noted.
The ministry, which confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on March 1, has previously disclosed four patients have died due to COVID-19 related illnesses.
