Reuters Youssef Boudlal
On Tuesday, the Moroccan Ministry of Health recorded 867 cases and 15 new deaths from the Coronavirus in the country.
The Ministry of Health stated, in the daily bulletin of epidemiological monitoring results, that the general outcome of recorded infections with the new Corona virus “Covid-19” infection in the country during the past 24 hours increased by 867, compared to 337 in Monday’s data, to reach the level of 467,493 cases since the outbreak began monitoring in March 2, of which 14,483 are considered active.
The ministry added that it had detected 15 new deaths from disease within a day, compared to 22 Monday, bringing the number of pandemic victims in the country to 8,187, with a lethality rate of 1.7%.
The Ministry of Health stated that it had recorded 1,351 new recoveries, bringing the number of people recovering from the Coronavirus in the Kingdom to the level of 444,823, with a recovery rate of 95.2%.
Morocco has already started distributing doses of vaccines against Coronavirus infection “Covid-19” to various cities and regions to launch a vaccination campaign this week, after receiving two million doses of the vaccine from the British-Swedish company, “AstraZeneca” manufactured in India.
On Wednesday, the Kingdom is expected to receive 500 thousand doses of the Chinese “Sinopharm” vaccine.
Morocco has requested 66 million doses of “Covid-19” vaccines in general to vaccinate 25 million people, who make up four fifths of the country’s population.
Source: Agencies
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