Roundup: Ethiopia launches COVID-19 testing campaign amid widespread call to curb rapid infection rate


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  • Monday, 03 Aug 2020

ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia's confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 18,706 on Sunday amid widespread call to avert the current rapid spread of the virus in the East African country.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Health, in a statement issued on Sunday, revealed that from a total of 7,607 medical tests that were conducted within the last 24 hours, 707 of them tested positive for COVID-19, eventually bringing the total number of positive cases to 18,706.

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