The World Food Program (WFP) has warned that famine related to the COVID-19 pandemic could cost a heavy toll of lives around the world.

As COVID-19 forces Ethiopia to consider digitizing much of its services, the latest to catch the wave are local universities and colleges being forced to take their classes online.

Canada’s Minister of International Development, Karina Gould has announced a USD 159.5 million fund to help the international effort against the fight of COVID-19, including that of Ethiopia’s.

Huawei Technologies is expanding its support to Ethiopia to aid in the country’s capability to fight the COVID-19 with a slew of medical donations and technological support.

CDC Ethiopia is helping Ethiopia build its capacity to support laboratories and health facilities as it faces the challenges of the COVID–19 pandemic. This comes as the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) and CDC lab experts are conducting a COVID-19 lab tests locally, surpassing the need to send samples to South Africa for basic testing.

In a bid to support Ethiopia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tencent Foundation, a Chinese charity organization, has donated test kits and hand gloves to Ethiopia.

The United Nations (UN) is planning to build a medical evacuation (MEDVAC) field hospital in Addis Ababa which will be used to treat COVID-19 patients.

Ethiopia’s ambassador to the US, Fetsum Arega, called for various players to stop discouraging the general public from wearing masks on the grounds of supply shortage and other reasons. The ambassador said so during a webinar organized by People to People on May 16, 2020, in collaboration with multiple stakeholders including the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, Ohio State University, and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MoSHE) of Ethiopia.

Avon Industries plc has donated much needed resources to Mekodonia to alleviate the hardships caused by the impacts of COVID-19.

In his early days after assuming power two years ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), on his tour around North America and Europe, urged the diaspora community to contribute “a dollar a day” in support of alleviating Ethiopia’s socio-economic quagmires.