A STATE OF EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION ENACTED TO COUNTER AND CONTROL THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 AND MITIGATE ITS IMPACT

Proclamation No. 3 /2020 State of Emergency Proclamation Enacted to Counter and Control the Spread of COVID-19 and Mitigate Its Impact: 

  • Recognizing of the rapid global spread and substantial adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impossibility of curtailing its spread through the normal system of government;
  • Since this pandemic is having a considerable negative impact in our country, to enable the expedient and coordinated implementation of measures necessary to minimize and counter the spread of the pandemic;
  • Since it has become necessary to take various measures to counter and mitigate the humanitarian, social, economic and political damage being caused by the pandemic;
  • To create public awareness about COVID-19 and strengthen precautionary measures by putting in place an enabling legal framework;

  In accordance with the FDRE Constitution Articles 77(10) and 93, this State of Emergency has been proclaimed. Download state of emergency to fight covid-19