Ethiopia, Africa's second-most populous nation registered 124 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 274,899 as of Friday evening, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The ministry said 14 new deaths and 439 more recoveries were reported, bringing the national death toll to 4,276 and total recoveries to 253,634. Ethiopia has so far reported the largest number of Covid-19 cases in the East Africa region. , according to Xinhua news reports.

According to the ministry, Ethiopia currently has 16,987 active Covid-19 cases, of whom 228 are under severe health conditions. Figures from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that Ethiopia's Covid-19 cases accounted for about 5 percent of Africa's total.

Ethiopia is among the countries hardest hit by Covid-19 in Africa, following South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt.

Global Covid Watch: The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (17,801,462), France (5,814,648), Turkey (5,359,728), Russia (5,220,168), the UK (4,626,899), Italy (4,250,902), Argentina (4,242,763), Colombia (3,888,614), Spain (3,757,442), Germany (3,728,601) and Iran (3,080,526), the CSSE figures showed. In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 498,499 fatalities.

Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (383,490), Mexico (230,792), the UK (128,220), Italy (127,225), Russia (126,300) and France (110,864).

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