A record of people entering hospital rooms on Sunday in Morocco is alarming health professionals over lack of early diagnosis and unvaccinated people, potentially leading to an extension of restrictive conditions across the country.
Member of the scientific committee on vaccination Moulay Said Afif cited to Hespress English the lack of early diagnosis, along with some people who suffer from chronic diseases, and unvaccinated populations as the reasons behind the rise in hospitalization, which reached 101 people on Sunday.
“This percentage is the highest since May,” said the health professional.
The total number of critical cases in the recovery departments is 1,444 cases, among which 776 are under artificial respiration, 46 are under penetrative artificial respiration, and 730 are under non-invasive artificial respiration, according to the Ministry of Health.
The rise in hospital occupancies comes as Moroccans are waiting for the new government to announce an easing of the precautionary measures, including a 9 pm curfew.
“To return to normal life, critical cases must decrease, as well as a decrease in deaths, in addition to the decrease in positive tests for Covid-19 especially with the high rate of vaccination.”
Afif expects measures to ease “when we reach more than 70 percent of those vaccinated with the first dose and 60 percent vaccinated with the second dose.”
The Moroccan Ministry of Health announced in its latest statement that more than 21 million people received the first dose of the vaccine against the COVID-19, and more than 17.4 million people were given the second dose.
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