The coronavirus pandemic wave in Morocco has started to ease following a drop in new cases, the Ministry Health said Tuesday.
Presenting a bimonthly report (17-30 August) on the pandemic in the country, head of the communicable diseases division at the ministry, Abdelkrim Meziane Bellefquih said that available data shows that “the curve of the epidemic entered a downward phase after a five-week phase of increase in cases and reached a peak before mid-August 2021.”
“The current phase, still at its beginning, will be followed by another phase marked by a drop in critical cases and deaths,” he said, adding that during the past two weeks, Morocco has witnessed a drop in COVID-19 cases.
“The weekly number of infections dropped from 63,174 in mid-August to 42,424 at the end of this month, that is a decrease of 17.6 percent,” Bellefquih said.
Regarding active cases, nearly 60,000 were confirmed as of August 30, compared to 80,000 more than two weeks ago - a decrease of 25 percent.
Bellefquih said that Morocco has administered 33 million COVID-19 vaccine injections. The North Africa country has expanded its vaccination campaign to include people between the ages of 12 and 17 ahead of the new academic year.
