One hundred and twenty-two new cases of coronavirus infection (Covid-19) have been confirmed in Morocco in the last 24 hours, bringing to 3,568 the total number of cases of contamination, the ministry of Health announced Thursday.
The number of cured people increased, until Thursday at 6 p.m, to 456 (39 additional recoveries) that is 12,8% of the total of confirmed cases, while the number of fatalities reached 155 with 6 new deaths, which means a mortality rate of 4,3%, 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 noted that the monitoring of contact persons is the basis of the discovery of 90% of the cases reported during the last 24 hours, that is 109 out of the 122.
The official also said that despite a frequency that continues to decrease, some cases that do not exceed 40 have been reported in the different outbreak sites.
Regarding the geographical distribution, no change is to be reported, said El Youbi, who pointed out that Casablanca-Settat and Marrakech-Safi rank respectively first and second.
The official noted a significant increase in asymptomatic people or those with mild symptoms (75%), people in a not serious condition (20%), while the rate of people in intensive care does not exceed 5%.
El Youbi assured that the spread of Covid-19 is currently at a rate established at 1.19% against 2.73% at the onset of the pandemic in the Kingdom.
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