Eighty-two (82) new cases of COVID-19 infection have been recorded during the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of contamination cases to 6,952 in the Kingdom, the ministry of Health announced on Monday.
No new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, keeping the number of fatalities at 192, 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,
Similarly, the case-fatality rate (the percentage of deaths caused by the virus among total confirmed cases) remains stable at 2.8%, he noted.
Among the 82 new cases, 71 cases were detected thanks to the medical follow-up of contact persons, i.e. 87% of the new reported cases, bringing the total number of contact persons followed since the outbreak of the epidemic in the Kingdom to 38,407, said the official.
He added that the number of cured people has increased to 3,758, so far, with 98 new recoveries, noting that the recovery rate has now reached 54.1%.
The director of Epidemiology and Disease Control at the ministry of Health said that the majority of confirmed cases of contamination have been found in the Casablanca-Settat region, noting that outbreaks in this region continue to produce new cases.
He also pointed out that cases of infection had been recorded in small outbreaks in Marrakech-safi and other new cases in two family outbreaks in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, while the remaining cases had been distributed between the regions of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Fès-Meknès, noting that no new cases had been detected in the other regions.
Geographically, Casablanca-Settat is the region with the highest number of confirmed cases (30%), followed by Marrakech-Safi (+18%), Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima and Fez-Meknes (14% respectively), and Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Draa-Tafilalet.
The total number of excluded cases has reached 88,584 since the beginning of the pandemic, after negative laboratory tests of 5,497 cases in the last 24 hours, he noted.
The epidemiological situation of these days is marked by an improvement in indicators relating to deaths and recoveries, he concluded.
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