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Coronavirus: Ethiopia orders civil servants to work from home

A cleaning staff waits in protective gear to disinfect a metro carriage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 20, 2020. Thousands of Ethiopia's federal civil servants in Addis Ababa will now work from home PHOTO | MICHAEL TEWELDE | AFP 

By  Tesfa-Alem Tekle

Correspondent in Addis Abba, Ethiopia

Nation Media Group

Ethiopia has ordered thousands of its federal civil servants in Addis Ababa to start working from home as the horn of Africa’s nation steps up its fight to stem the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19)

The new directive is effective on Wednesday. 

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