One in three people in Ethiopia may have been infected by COVID-19, the East African country’s Public Health Institute announced on Friday.
The pandemic is spreading at an alarming rate, it said, adding out of the 100 samples taken yesterday, 26 of them have tested positive for the virus.
This, according to the institute, shows that one in three people may have been infected by the pandemic.
Ethiopia has so far reported 194, 524 cases, with 744 of them in a severe condition and 2, 741 deaths. Some 151, 172 patients have also recovered from the virus.
The first shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccines produced by Serum Institute of India (SII) arrived in Ethiopia on 6 March 2021 through COVAX, which facilitated the procurement and shipment of the vaccines.
The first shipment of 2.2 million vaccine doses out of the total 7.62 doses planned to be deployed to Ethiopia by May 2021 are being administered in the national launch of the vaccine introduction. Ethiopia aims to vaccinate 20% of the population by the end of 2021.
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