deaths of patients from the coronavirus were reported. the first patient was a 60-year-old female ethiopian with a travel history to france who tested positive for the virus on 31 march 2020. the second patient was a 56-year-old male ethiopian with no travel history who was confirmed to have the virus on 3 april 2020. on 6 april, one case of the virus was reported. the case is of a 65-year-old female ethiopian resident of dukem with no travel history. on 7 april, eight more cases of the virus were reported. one of the infected persons is an eritrean national and the remaining are ethiopians. a 9-month-old baby is one of the cases, making it the youngest confirmed case so far. on 8 april, three cases of the virus were reported. two of them are 29-year-old male ethiopians with travel histories to dubai. the other case is of a 36-year-old male ethiopian from addis kidam in the amhara region with no travel history. on 9 april, one case of the virus was reported. the case is of a 43-year-old canadian with a travel history to dubai and canada. on 10 april, nine more cases of the virus were reported. seven of them are ethiopians and the others are eritrean and indian nationals. all of them had travel histories. on the same date, a death of one patient was reported. the patient was the 65-year-old woman from dukem who tested positive for the virus on 6 april. on 11 april, four cases of the virus were reported. all of them are ethiopians and three of them had travel histories. on the same date, six more recoveries were reported. on 12 april, two cases were reported. the first case is of a 24-year-old female ethiopian who returned from dubai before the mandatory quarantine rule was imposed on anyone entering the country. the second case is of a 35-year-old female ethiopian who returned from turkey and was under mandatory quarantine. on 13 april, three cases were reported. all of them are ethiopians and had no travel histories. on the same date, four more recoveries were reported. on 14 april, eight more cases were reported. on 15 april, three cases were reported. all of them are ethiopians. on the same date, one patient was reported to have fully recovered. on 16 april, seven more cases reported. all of them are ethiopians and one of them had no travel history abroad. on 17 april, four cases were reported. all of them are ethiopians. two of them are from addis ababa and the other two are from the amhara region. on 18 april, nine cases were reported. eight of them are ethiopians and one is equatoguinean. of the ethiopians, four are from addis ababa, three are from dire dawa and one is from jimma. three had no travel history but had known contact with someone with the virus. one person was reported to have fully recovered, bringing the total of those who have recovered to 16. on 19 april, three cases were reported. all of them are ethiopians and live in addis ababa. one had no travel history and contact tracing is being conducted. on 20 april, three cases were reported. all of them are ethiopians and live in dire dawa. one had no travel history but had known contact with someone with the virus. on 27 april, one case and nine newly recovered reported. the patient has travel history from united kingdom and was in mandatory quarantine. by the end of the month there had been 105 new cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 131. the death toll was 3. the number of recovered patients increased to 59, leaving 69 active cases. may 2020 during may there were 1041 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1172. the death toll rose to 11. the number of recovered patients increased to 209, leaving 952 active cases at the end of the month. june 2020 in june, the government announced that it was postponing the 2020 general election due to the pandemic. on 11 june, the first confirmed case was reported in one of the four refugee camps in the north of the country, holding about 100,000 eritreans living in crowded conditions. there were 4674 new cases in june, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 5846. the death toll rose to 103. the number of recovered patients increased to 2430, leaving 3313 active cases at the end of the month. july to september 2020 on 18 july, the who stated that ethiopia was one of ten african countries accounting for 88 percent of all reported covid-19 cases in the african region. in july there were 11,684 new cases, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 17,530. the death toll rose to 274. the number of recovered patients increased by 4,520 to 6,950. there were 10,306 active cases at the end of the month. as of 8 august, ethiopia reported 22,253 confirmed covid-19 cases compared to 13,248 on 25 july. the cumulative number of recoveries has reached 9,707, while the number of deaths has increased to 390. there were 34,601 new cases in august, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 52,131. the death toll nearly tripled to 809. there were 32,328 active cases at the end of the month. there were 22,453 new cases in september, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 74,584. the death toll rose to 1,191. the number of recovered patients increased to 30,952, leaving 42,441 active cases at the end of the month. october to december 2020 there were 21,585 new cases in october, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 96,169. the death toll rose to 1,469. the number of recovered patients increased to 52,517, leaving 42,183 active cases at the end of the month. there were 13,905 new cases in november, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 110,074. the death toll rose to 1,706. the number of recovered patients increased to 73,808, leaving 34,560 active cases at the end of the month. there were 14,190 new cases in december, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 124,264. the death toll rose to 1,923. the number of recovered patients increased to 112,096, leaving 10,245 active cases at the end of the month. january to march 2021 there were 13,386 new cases in january, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 137,650. the death toll rose to 2,093. the number of recovered patients increased to 122,862, leaving 12,695 active cases at the end of the month. there were 21,422 new cases in february, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 159,072. the death toll rose to 2,365. the number of recovered patients increased to 134,858, leaving 21,849 active cases at the end of the month. vaccinations started on 13 march, initially with 2.2 million doses of the oxford-astrazeneca covid-19 vaccine obtained through covax on 7 march. there were 47,517 new cases in march, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 206,589. the death toll rose to 2,865. the number of recovered patients increased to 158,109, leaving 45,613 active cases at the end of the month. april to june 2021 there were 51,473 new cases in april, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 258,062. the death toll rose to 3,709. the number of recovered patients increased to 200,148, leaving 54,205 active cases at the end of the month. there were 13,479 new cases in may, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 271,541. the death toll rose to 4,165. the number of recovered patients increased to 238,734, leaving 28,642 active cases at the end of the month. there were 4,633 new cases in june, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 276,174. the death toll rose to 4,320. the number of recovered patients increased to 260,372, leaving 12,040 active cases at the end of the month. in june, the number of vaccine doses administered grew from 1,822,343 to 2,019,163. july to september 2021 the us delivers janssen covid-19 vaccines to ethiopia as part of the covax initiative in 2021 there were 4,191 new cases in july, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 280,365. the death toll rose to 4,385. the number of recovered patients increased to 263,500, leaving 12,478 active cases at the end of the month. in july, the number of vaccine doses administered grew from 2,019,163 to 2,217,097. there were 27,769 new cases in august, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 308,134. the death toll rose to 4,675. the number of recovered patients increased to 276,842, leaving 26,615 active cases at the end of the month. in august, the number of vaccine doses administered grew from 2,217,097 to 2,451,950. there were 37,540 new cases in september, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 345,674. the death toll rose to 5,582. the number of recovered patients increased to 312,806, leaving 27,284 active cases at the end of the month. in september, the number of vaccine doses administered grew from 2,451,950 to 2,853,785. october to december 2021 there were 19,493 new cases in october, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 365,167. the death toll rose to 6,459. the number of recovered patients increased to 339,742, leaving 18,966 active cases at the end of the month. there were 25,862 new cases in november, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 371,536. the death toll rose to 6,755. the number of recovered patients increased to 349,037, leaving 15,742 active cases at the end of the month. in november, the number of vaccine doses administered grew from 3.6 million to 7.9 million. there were 48,806 new cases in december, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 420,342. the death toll rose to 6,937. the number of recovered patients increased to 355,046, leaving 58,357 active cases at the end of the month. in december, the number of vaccine doses administered grew from 7.9 million to 9.3 million. modelling by who's regional office for africa suggests that due to under-reporting, the true cumulative number of infections by the end of 2021 was around 52 million while the true number of covid-19 deaths was around 34,734. january to march 2022 there were 44,588 new cases in january, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 464,930. the death toll rose to 7,331. the number of recovered patients increased to 397,786, leaving 59,813 active cases at the end of the month. there were 3,744 new cases in february, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 468,674. the death toll rose to 7,460. the number of recovered patients increased to 416,704, leaving 44,510 active cases at the end of the month. there were 759 new cases in march, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 469,433. the death toll rose to 7,497. the number of recovered patients increased to 442,826, leaving 19,433 active cases at the end of the month. april to june 2022 there were 1,148 new cases in april, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 470,581. the death toll rose to 7,510. the number of recovered patients increased to 455,383, leaving 7,688 active cases at the end of the month. there were 1,765 new cases in may, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 472,346. the death toll rose to 7,513. there were 16,378 new cases in june, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 488,724. the death toll rose to 7,536. the number of recovered patients increased to 461,705, leaving 19,481 active cases at the end of the month. july to september 2022 there were 3,513 new cases in july, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 492,237. the death toll rose to 7,568. the number of recovered patients increased to 469,696, leaving 14,973 active cases at the end of the month. there were 953 new cases in august, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 493,190. the death toll rose to 7,572. the number of recovered patients increased to 471,643, leaving 13,975 active cases at the end of the month. there were 397 new cases in september, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 493,587. the death toll remained unchanged. the number of recovered patients increased