Ethiopia is one of East / Horn of Africa’s least impacted nations as compared to rate of COVID-19 case growth and infection of its neighbours.

May 24: 193 cases in 5 days as tally hits 582

Ethiopia has recorded back-to-back one-day spikes, record 61 new cases on Saturday and a further 81 on Sunday toppling the Saturday record.

Ethiopia’s tally has therefore jumped by 193 new cases in a space of five days.

Total confirmed cases = 582 (new cases = 88)

Total recoveries = 152 (new recoveries = 8)

Total deaths = 5

Active cases = 423

Trajectory of infections between May 20 – 24

May 20: 389 (24 new cases)

May 21: 398 (9 new cases)

May 22: 399 (10 new cases)

May 22: 433 (34 new cases)

May 23: 494 (61 new cases)

May 24: 582 (88 new cases)

May 19: 365 cases with 60 new cases in three days

Total confirmed cases = 365 (new cases between May 17 – 19 = 60)

Total recoveries = 120 (new recoveries = 8)

Total deaths = 5

Active cases = 238

Ethiopia’s case count spiked on Monday by 35 new cases (a daily record) whiles 14 new cases were recorded today.

Major African stats: May 19 at 6:00 GMT:

Confirmed cases = 88,264

Number of deaths = 2,832

Recoveries = 33,898

Active cases = 51,534