ADDIS ABABA, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia's COVID-19 cases reached 352 after 35 more people were confirmed, the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) said in a statement on Monday.
This is so far the biggest daily increase in case number for the Horn of Africa country.
The ministry revealed that from a total of 1,775 tests that were conducted in the last 24 hours, 35 of them tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases to 352.
According to figures from FMoH, all 35 new COVID-19 cases are Ethiopian nationals, including 17 males and 18 females.
The ministry said that 116 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have so far recovered.
The ministry previously disclosed five patients had died due to COVID-19.
Ethiopia confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on March 13.
The Ethiopian government has instituted a wide range of measures to contain the spread of COVID-19.
In April, the Ethiopian House of People's Representatives - the lower house of the Ethiopian parliament - announced a five-month state of emergency to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the country. Enditem
