Coronavirus - Ethiopia: Notification Note on COVID-19 Situational Update - 27 May 2020 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 27, 2020/APO Group/ -- The total laboratory tests conducted within 24 hours are 4,352; of these thirty (30) of them are confirmed positive for COVID-19 and the total confirmed cases as of today are Seven-Hundred-Thirty-One (731). Among the confirmed cases, 22 of them are male and 8 are female and their age ranges from 9 to 60 years. All of the people confirmed for COVID-19 am Ethiopians. Among the cases fifteen (15) of them are identified from Addis Ababa (two have known contact with a confirmed case and thirteen have no known contact with confirmed cases and no travel history), two (2) from Tigray Region (with travel history from abroad and was in mandatory quarantine), eight (8) from Amhara region (with travel history from abroad was in mandatory quarantine), one (1) from Oromia region (with no known contact with confirmed cases and no travel history), three (3) from Harari region (have known contact with a confirmed case) and one (1) long truck driver with travel history from abroad. The potential sources of exposure of the confirmed cases arc presented below:
Potential Exposure |
Number of Cases |
Travel history from abroad |
11 |
Contact with confirmed cases |
5 |
Cases with no contact with confirmed cases and no travel history |
14 |
Total |
30 |
Total laboratory test conducted |
91,616 |
Laboratory tests conducted within 24 hours |
4352 |
Number of confirmed cases within 24 hours |
30 |
Total patients of COVID-19 in the treatment centers |
542 |
Patients in intensive care |
1 |
Newly recovered |
14 |
Total recovered |
181 |
Total deaths |
6 |
Returned to their country |
2 |
Total confirmed cases as of today |
731 |