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Join on Telegram Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health urges citizens to continue to comply with all preventive measures to inhibit the spread of COVID-19 and its variants.
“We urge citizens to comply with the restrictive measures, which are important,” Minister of Health Khalid Ait Taleb said.
The minister announced that the country’s authorities will proceed in implementing tight restrictions as a response to the rapidly rising COVID-19 cases.
He acknowledged that such restrictions would impact several sectors, yet he believes that further restrictions might be imposed.
“Taking into account the evolution of the epidemiological situation over the last two days, we have been able to observe an accelerated increase in cases of contamination compared to the trend observed during the last months,” he said.
Just a few weeks have passed when Morocco announced further easing of the lockdown, including the re-opening of public spaces, such as movie theaters, cultural centers, and public swimming pools.
Ait Taleb pointed out that Morocco managed to achieve important results with regard to monitoring and controlling the epidemiological situation.
He said that the country’s ability to achieve success in the vaccination campaign is among the results, “on which we should capitalize, while respecting the measures without which we risk a resurgence,” he said.
Over 9,116,132 are fully vaccinated in Morocco.
The number of people who received the first dose of the vaccine has risen to 9,993,673.
The Minister’s remarks came following the sudden surge in cases recently.
On Tuesday, Morocco recorded over 600 cases and nine COVID-19-related deaths. On Wednesday, 774 COVID-19 cases were reported within 24 hours.
Approximately 531,361 cases have been recorded, including 517,576 recoveries and 9,296 fatalities.
