Covid-19: 7 Million Doses of Vaccines Received so far (Ministry)

Morocco has received so far a total of 7 million doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccines, after the arrival of 500,000 additional doses of Chinese vaccine Sinopharm, said, on Tuesday in Rabat, head of the communicable diseases division at the epidemiology and disease control department Abdelkrim Meziane Belfkih.

A second batch of 500,000 doses of the vaccine by Chinese laboratory Sinopharm arrived earlier on Tuesday from Beijing. These doses will be distributed to the various vaccination centers in the Kingdom.

Presenting Tuesday in Rabat the bimonthly report on the epidemiological situation, Meziane Belfkih noted that the reproduction rate (R0) of Covid-19 showed an improvement for the 13th consecutive week to stabilize at 0.85 last Sunday, adding that the death curve has also registered a 30% drop over the past week.

The weekly contamination rate per 100,000 inhabitants reached 8.6% last week, against 13.3% at the end of January.

The official reported the significant drop (-20%) in the number of active cases from 13,099 cases two weeks ago to 10,555 on Monday. Cases in intensive care, for their part, decreased by 37% in the last two weeks, from 744 to 422.

As of February 15, the total number of cases recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic reached 478,595, a cumulative incidence rate of 1,316.7 per 100,000 people. Thus for the 4th consecutive week, the national rate remains below the world average, he noted.

The number of deaths recorded at the national level stood at 8,491, i.e. a case fatality rate of 1.8%, he added, saying that Morocco is ranked 37th in the world and 3rd in Africa in terms of the number of deaths.

Meziane Belfkih pointed out that the recovery rate reached 96% with a total of 459,549 people cured.

The weekly epidemiological curve relating to the coronavirus in Morocco has fallen by 25.7%, a trend which has been observed in 10 regions. This curve, on the other hand, evolved upwards in the regions of Guelmim-Oued-Noun (+14.8%) and Beni Mellal-Khénifra (+4.5%).

Globally, the number of positive cases stood at 109,503,044 until Monday, that is a cumulative incidence rate of 1,404.8 per 100,000 inhabitants.

The number of recorded deaths stood at 2,413,867, a case fatality rate of 2.2%, said the official, noting that the number of people who recovered reached 81,614,968, that is a recovery rate of 74.5%.