Rabat – The number of new critical COVID-19 cases that are hospitalized in Morocco’s intensive care departments have sharply decreased in the past two weeks, the Ministry of Health announced today.
Abdelkrim Meziane Belfqih, the head of the Communicable Diseases Unit at the Directorate of Epidemiology and Disease Control at the health ministry, said today that the number of hospitalized people in intensive care units across Morocco has decreased by 49%.
He added that the country’s COVID situation during the October 12-25 period showed positive signals in terms of hospital admissions for critical cases.
In the past two weeks, the percentage of critical COVID cases requiring special care went down from 12% to 6.6%, according to the latest data compiled by the ministry.
Belfqih emphasized that the weekly development of the daily rate of cases in resuscitation departments under artificial respiration also witnessed a significant improvement in the number of cases during the last two weeks, decreasing by 30%.
Fatalities also continued to decline, decreasing from 87 deaths in the week before the last one to 68 deaths in the past week, with a percentage of -8.21%.
At the same time, the overall number of COVID cases has continued to decrease amid the rapidly progressing vaccination campaign, moving from 2,945 cases in the week before last to 2,145 cases in the following week. This means there has been a noted 27% drop in Morocco’s overall COVID numbers in the past week alone.
Despite Morocco’s manifestly effective COVID response, Moroccan health professionals are still urging citizens to maintain vigilance, warning that another wave of COVID-19 infections is still a possibility.
To sustain the current improvement in Morocco’s epidemiological situation, Belfqih argued, people should get vaccinated and continue following the standard preventive measures to avert a new wave of infections that could jeopardize all the gains Morocco has made in recent weeks.
The health expert notably called for a “rapid and wide involvement of adults and children in the national campaign for vaccination.”
