One hundred and twenty-one (121) new cases of coronavirus infection (Covid-19) have been confirmed in Morocco in the last 24 hours, bringing to 2,685 the total number of cases of contamination, the ministry of Health announced Saturday.
The number of cured people until Saturday at 6 p.m., amounted to 314 (33 additional recoveries), while the number of fatalities rose to 137 with 02 new deaths, 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.
Referring to the situation at the level of the disease outbreaks, the official said that only one case of infection has been recorded in Casablanca, but that no contamination has been reported in Marrakech, Nador and Fez.
On the other hand, he noted, two clusters have been observed in Tangier: one concerns an industrial unit (9 cases) and the other a family home with as many cases.
In addition, the director reported 616 probable cases that were excluded after laboratory analysis, bringing the number of cases excluded since the beginning of the epidemic to 11,004.
Most of the new contaminations are detected thanks to the follow-up of the contact persons, an operation which concerned 13,562 cases, of which 6027 are still under sanitary control. Through this action, some 1331 cases have been confirmed, among them 92 new cases (76%) within 24 hours.
In the same vein, El Youbi said that the mortality rate has dropped significantly to 5.1%, thanks to efforts to detect early cases or asymptomatic cases (19%). In this regard, he explained that patients in critical condition now represent only 4%, given the fact that 89 people are in resuscitation.
For cured cases, the director reported that recoveries represent 11.7% of all confirmed cases.
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