Reporting on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is carefully ordered and classified in terms of gender, place of residence, nationality and age, as Minister of Health Lia Tadesse’s (PhD) daily reports show. But behind the statistics are people.
With 55 individuals having already lost their lives to the virus, it is an unquantifiable loss in terms of the dreams and hopes dashed, the memories lost and the loved ones left behind.
As the number of people confirmed to have the virus reached four digits, and several deaths started to be reported daily, it has become more about "how many" and no longer about "who" - a harbinger of tough times to come.
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