Seventy-one (71) new cases of COVID-19 infection were recorded during the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of contamination cases to 7,023 in the Kingdom, the ministry of Health announced Tuesday.
Among the 71 new cases, 59 were detected thanks to the medical follow-up of contact persons, i.e. 84% of the new reported cases, said director of Epidemiology and Disease Control at the ministry of Health, Mohamed El Youbi, in a statement broadcast by MAP on its TV channel M24 and on RIM RADIO.
He also stressed that the new cases have been recorded in four outbreaks in Casablanca, adding that the other cases of infection were spread over the regions of Marrakech-Safi, Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Fez-Meknes and Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, noting that no new cases have been detected in the other regions.
The number of fatalities has increased to 193 (one new death) in the last 24 hours, he noted, pointing out that the case-fatality rate (the percentage of deaths caused by the virus among the total number of confirmed cases) is revised downwards to 2.7%.
The total number of excluded cases has reached 93,344 since the beginning of the pandemic, following negative laboratory tests of 4,760 cases in the last 24 hours, he said.
The Moroccan official added that the number of cured people has so far reached 3,901 with 143 new recoveries, stating that the recovery rate has risen to 55.5%.
Geographically no change was noted, said El Youbi, adding that the region of Casablanca-Settat is still at the top of the ranking of confirmed cases with (30%), followed by the region of Marrakech-Safi (18%), then respectively the regions of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima and Fez-Meknes (14%), next is the region of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and finally the region of Draa-Tafilalet.
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