The Health Ministry announced Morocco has entered a dropping phase of the third COVID-19 infections wave while warning the country has yet to reach an infections’ peak.
As the number of critical cases and deaths continue to rise, the ministry is still urging citizens to partake in the national vaccination campaign, in order to limit the virus’ complications.
The coordinator of the National Center for Public Emergency Operations at the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Mouad El Mrabet, said in his presentation of the bi-monthly tracking of the epidemiological situation this descension period first began in January 24, when “cases decreased by 34%.”
El Mrabet stated that “the positivity rate decreased in the last two weeks from 24.4% to 21.8%, and the case count index was equal to 0.85% until last Sunday.”
The official reminded that the new Omicron variant constitutes over 98% of current infections in Morocco, noting that the ascending phase lasted five weeks since December 13, and the peak of cases and sepsis is in the sixth week of the wave, which fell from January 17 to January 23.
The official stressed that although we have entered a descension stage, this does not mean that the spread of the virus will slow down, as “we are still in the red.”
Critical and serious cases noted a 19% increase in the last week, says El Mrabet, continuing that “it is likely that we reached the peak last week, but the index of COVID-19 reproduction is still 1.07%.” Deaths have also continued to rise, recording a 47.4% increase in the last two weeks.
The national vaccination rate reached 67.3%, 63% being administered the second dose and only 12.1% with the booster shot.
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