Ethiopia
| Total cases: 78,819+959 | Recovered: 33,060 | Deaths: 1,222+8 |
Worldwide
| Total cases: 35.1M | Recovered: 24.4M | Deaths: 1.04M |
Common questions
What are the best practices to stop COVID-19 transmission?
Clean hands and cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue or bent elbow at all times. Avoid crowded places, close-contact settings and confined and enclosed spaces with poor ventilation. Ensure good ventilation in indoor settings, including homes and offices.
Stay home if feeling unwell and call your medical provider as soon as possible to determine whether medical care is needed. In countries or areas where COVID-19 is circulating, health workers should use medical masks continuously during all routine activities in clinical areas in health care facilities.
What percentage of patients with COVID-19 need to be hospitalized?
Most people (about 80%) recover from the disease without needing special treatment, and for the majority – especially for children and young adults – illness due to COVID-19 is generally minor. However, for some people it can cause serious illness.
Around 1 in every 5 people who are infected with COVID-19 develop difficulty in breathing and require hospital care. People who are aged over 60 years, and people who have underlying medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease or hypertension are among those who are at greater risk.
How dangerous is COVID-19?
Although for most people COVID-19 causes only mild illness, it can make some people very ill. More rarely, the disease can be fatal. Older people, and those with pre- existing medical conditions (such as high blood pressure, heart problems or diabetes) appear to be more vulnerable
Source:
WHO