Reuters Youssef Boudlal
The intensive care unit in a hospital in the Moroccan city of Sala.
The Moroccan Ministry of Health announced, on Saturday evening, that it had recorded 444 cases and 8 new deaths from the Coronavirus in the country, which represents a decrease for both indicators compared to Friday’s data.
The Ministry of Health stated, in the daily bulletin of epidemiological monitoring results, that the number of registered infections with the emerging corona virus “Covid-19” in the country during the past 24 hours increased by 444, bringing the total number to the level of 480,948 cases since the outbreak began on March 2, including 8357 is considered active.
Today, the injuries index is thus witnessing a gradual decline in Morocco, which on February 16th recorded 476 cases, on February 17th, 508, on February 18th 477, and on February 19, 448.
The ministry added that it detected 8 new deaths due to the disease within a day, bringing the number of pandemic victims in the country to 8,548, with a lethality rate of about 1.8%.
This comes after this indicator reached 13 deaths on February 16, 13 deaths on February 17, 7 cases on February 18, and on February 19, 16.
The Ministry of Health stated that it had recorded 772 new recoveries, bringing the number of people recovering from the Coronavirus in the Kingdom to the level of 464,043, with a recovery rate of 96.5%.
And the last statistic stated that the number of people who received the first dose of vaccines against the emerging corona virus reached 2447716, including 13,476 who were also vaccinated with the second dose.
Source: “Maghreb Arab News Agency” + agencies
