Morocco continues to experience an increase in COVID-19 cases, from an average of 200 cases daily to 7000 cases a day, causing citizens to get demotivated in receiving their vaccinations, the scientific committee says.
As of yesterday, Morocco recorded 5,518 Covid-19 cases, raising the total number of cases since the beginning of the outbreak to 1,017,560.
The kingdom has also reported 8 Covid-related deaths in the past 24 hours.
The Scientific Committee member on vaccination, Moulay Said Afif, told Hespress in a statement that 4.5 million citizens have not yet been vaccinated, preventing herd immunity from being achieved, which requires 70% of Morocco’s population to be inoculated.
Afif said the rate of vaccination has decreased noticeably, as only 6000 to 9000 citizens receive their third booster shot on a daily basis, even though 20,000 vaccinations are required daily, he specified, adding that “the number of people who receive the first shot does not exceed 5000 a day.”
“Studies have proven that people who received three COVID-19 shots do not face severe symptoms when affected by the new Omicron variant, and they get to recover quickly,” he said, adding, “this is what we also noticed, fully vaccinated people infected with the new variant get to recover in only six days.”
The current wave of COVID-19 is widely known as fast-spreading, especially with the surge of the new Omicron variant.
Recently, the coordinator at the National Center for Emergency Operations of Public Health of the Ministry, Mouad Mrabet, forecast the outbreak to last 11 weeks, peaking during the week of January 17-23, 2022. He further stressed that everything depends on the population’s adherence to preventive measures and mechanisms, according to MAP.
In this regard, Mrabet reported a “strong weekly change” in the number of cases (almost 50%) compared to the previous week, with a reproduction rate of 1.42%.
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