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Morocco has just announced the postponement of the start of the 2021-2022 school year to October 1.
Initially, the academic year was scheduled to start on September 10.
In its statement, the ministry cited several factors to justify the decision to postpone the school year, including unsettled fears surrounding Morocco’s health crisis despite a noted improvement in the country’s COVID figures in recent days.
Attributing the decision to the need to achieve herd immunity against the virus among educators, the ministry also said it seeks to ensure the vaccination of children aged between 12 and 17.
For the ministry, all these factors called for a further postponement to avoid a possible deterioration of the epidemiological situation when schools open.
In July and August, Morocco experienced a peak in the number of COVID-19 cases, with reports of 9,000 and sometimes over 10,000 daily cases for a few weeks.
The numbers have remarkably decreased in the last few days, however.
In the past 24 hours, Morocco recorded 1,923 COVID-19 new cases, bringing to 886,008 the total number of infections registered since the pandemic hit the country in March of last year.
Morocco seeks to vaccinate as many citizens as possible, with the government’s official pledge being to administer all doses of COVID vaccines to at least 80%.
About 19,339,035 people have received their first doses of the vaccine in Morocco as of September 6, while the number of fully vaccinated people has reached 15,781,489 since the launch of the vaccination campaign in january 28.
