Ethiopia on Friday, March 13th, 2020 announced that it had recorded its first case of the coronavirus, the second case in East Africa, which had been spared from the rapidly-spreading disease.

Ethiopia’s health ministry said that a 48-year-old Japanese man who had entered the country on March 4th, 2020 from Burkina Faso was confirmed to be its index case.

The health ministry said in a statement:

He is undergoing medical follow-up and is in a stable condition. Those who have been in contact with this person are being traced and quarantined.

Ethiopia has become the 15th African country with a confirmed case of the coronavirus pandemic.

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