The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has had serious health and social impacts in Ethiopia. As of January 2021, over 128,000 COVID-19 confirmed cases, with over 2,000 fatalities, were registered, with a sharp acceleration in recent months. These figures are the second largest in absolute terms among sub-Saharan African countries, after South Africa, though the caseload and mortality as a percentage of the population are near the median for the overall region.
