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Coronavirus risks new Ethiopia famine in villages already hit by 'bleeding eyes' disease
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Coronavirus is just the latest unwelcome disease to strike communities in Ethiopia. The government recently declared a state of emergency after recording 131 cases of Covid-19 and a death toll of three.
The virus that has swept the world, infecting 1.5 million people and killing more than 94,000, arrived in the East African nation on March 13 after a Japanese citizen tested positive.
Save the Children has warned that Ethiopia, along with other nations in the Horn of Africa, is facing an unprecedented threat from coronavirus as it also grapples with locust swarms and floods.
And now a feared famine. Covid-19 is affecting the region's economy and health services just as rivers have swollen with heavy spring rain, and the coming summer is
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