ADDIS ABABA 22 Mar (ANA) - Africa’s largest carrier Ethiopian Airlines has suspended flights to 30 countries, as Ethiopian announced it had nine cases of Covid-19. 

Details about which countries the airline will stop flying to were not immediately given. 

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on Friday that all passengers travelling to Ethiopia would be put in isolation for two weeks.

He also said that prisoners who were mothers, those with light sentences, and those nearing the end of their prison term would be set free to relieve prisons of possible congestion, news site Addis Standard reported.(ANA)

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