ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian Ministry of Health on Monday reported 297 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, as the total number of confirmed cases hit 125,919 in the country.
The ministry said the number of COVID-19 related deaths in the country reached 1,950 as of Monday evening, including two new COVID-19 related deaths reported during the last 24-hour period.
The ministry said that some 112,610 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 had recovered so far, including 243 in the last 24-hour period.
It also said that some 11,357 of the total reported COVID-19 cases are active cases, of which 262 of the patients are said to be under severe conditions.
According to the ministry, the new cases were discovered out of 4,157 COVID-19 medical tests that were conducted in the east African country during the last 24 hours.
Ethiopia had conducted 1,822,122 COVID-19 medical tests so far, the ministry noted.
Ethiopia, Africa's second-most populous nation with about 107 million people, has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the east African region.
Ethiopia is the fifth-most COVID-19 affected country in the African continent, after South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. Enditem
