As of January 3, 2022, the daily increase in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases amounted to 885, leading the total number of coronavirus cases in Morocco to reach about 967.7 thousand cases. As of the same date, there were 14,862 deaths and 941.9 thousand recoveries recorded in the country. The highest daily count took place on August 5, 2021 with 12,039 cases being registered.

Morocco recorded 1274180 Coronavirus Cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Morocco reported 16297 Coronavirus Deaths. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Morocco Coronavirus Cases.

As of January 4, 2022, the daily increase of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Morocco amounted to 4,299 cases, leading the cumulative coronavirus (COVID-19) cases to roughly 972 thousand infected civilians. As of the same date, there were 14,867 deaths and 943.1 thousand recoveries recorded in the country.

As of September 28, 2022, the total number of deaths caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Morocco reached 16,278. As of the same date, over one million overall cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the country.

Development of the pandemic

On March 2, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in Morocco. By the end of the year, 437,332 infections had been recorded in the country. The rise in the number of cases continued throughout the following year. Furthermore, although the recovery rate from the virus increased between December 2020 and June 4, 2021, it declined gradually after this date until it generally increased from August 15, 2021 onwards. Consequently, recoveries from the virus reached a total of over one million as of January 2022. Concurrently, the daily rate of occupancy of intensive care beds in the country dropped compared to 2020.

Economic impact on households and businesses

Developments in the spread of the virus in Morocco had some economic impacts on citizens and business activities. Many Moroccan households, especially those of the lower class, lost their sources of income in 2020. Furthermore, although a greater proportion of business enterprises were active during the pandemic, many others were temporarily or permanently shut down as of the second half of 2020. Moreover, 83 percent of business operations declined, with micro-enterprises, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) being the most affected.

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Morocco recorded 963,092 confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2021. The annual number of cases increased compared to the 439,193 registered throughout the previous year. The number of tests, deaths, and recoveries also increased in 2021. In contrast, active cases declined to 8,050 as of December 31, 2021, compared to 24,301 as of the end of 2020.

Data for measuring e-learning systems success during the COVID-19 pandemic: Case of the Higher Education Institutions in Morocco

As of November 22, 2021, the cumulative number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Northern Africa amounted to 2,635,876. Morocco was the most affected in the northern most region of Africa with more than 948.9 thousand of its civilians having contracted the virus. Tunisia ranked second in the region, with roughly 716.3 thousand recorded cases. Moreover, Libya ranked third, registering approximately 368.4 thousand cases of infections.

Association between COVID-19 infection and the implementation of the preventive measures in the workplace and the adherence to hygiene and protection measures.

Prior to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the inflation rate in Morocco in 2020 and 2021 was expected at 1 and 1.2 percent, respectively. On the contrary, under a baseline scenario, inflation was projected at 0.4 percent in 2020 and 1.1 percent in 2021. Moreover, under a worst case scenario, where the pandemic continued to the end of 2020, inflation rate was estimated at 0.4 and 1.3 percent for 2020 and 2021 respectively.

As of November 18, 2022, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa amounted to around 12.7 million, which represented around two percent of the infections around the world. By the same date, coronavirus cases globally were over 640 million, deaths were over six million, while approximately 620 million people recovered from the disease. On the African continent, South Africa was the most drastically affected country, with more than 3.6 million infections.

The African continent fighting the pandemic  

The African continent first came in contact with the coronavirus pandemic on February 14, 2020, in the northernmost part, particularly Egypt. Since then, the different governments took severe restrictive measures to try to curb the spread of the disease. Moreover, the official numbers of the African continent are significantly lower than those of Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Nevertheless, the infectious disease still managed to have its effects on several countries. South Africa had the highest number of deaths. Morocco and Tunisia, the second and third most affected in Africa, recorded 16,002 and 27,824 deaths, respectively, while Egypt registered at 24,132 as of March 02, 2022.

The light at the end of the tunnel  

Although the African countries still have a long way to fully combat the virus, vaccination programs have been rolled out in the majority of Africa. Also, according to a survey, public opinion in several African countries shows a high willingness to be vaccinated, with Ethiopia having numbers as high as 94 percent. As of March 2022, Egypt was the country administering the highest number of vaccine doses, however, Seychelles had the highest per rate per 100 people .

In 2020, 773 cases of illegal drug seizures were reported in Moroccan prisons. This was a significant decrease compared to the previous years observed. According to the source, this was largely due to the suspension of visits at the correctional facilities during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which also confirmed that visitations are major sources of drug introduction into these facilities. Overall, as of 2018, there were nearly 83.8 thousand prisoners in Morocco.

As of November 22, 2021, the cumulative number of coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths in Northern Africa amounted to 74,622, which represented 32.97 percent of the overall deaths in the African continent. In the northern region, Tunisia reported 25,347 casualties due to the pandemic. Although Morocco was the most affected in the number of COVID-19 cases, the country came third registering 14,764 deaths, while Egypt recorded 19,991 deaths.

The real total consumer spending on education in Morocco was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 414.5 million U.S. dollars (+27.21 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the real education-related spending is estimated to reach 1.9 billion U.S. dollars and therefore a new peak in 2029. Consumer spending, in this case eduction-related spending, refers to the domestic demand of private households and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs). Spending by corporations and the state is not included. The forecast has been adjusted for the expected impact of COVID-19.Consumer spending is the biggest component of the gross domestic product as computed on an expenditure basis in the context of national accounts. The other components in this approach are consumption expenditure of the state, gross domestic investment as well as the net exports of goods and services. Consumer spending is broken down according to the United Nations' Classification of Individual Consumption By Purpose (COICOP).The shown data adheres broadly to group tenth As not all countries and regions report data in a harmonized way, all data shown here has been processed by Statista to allow the greatest level of comparability possible. The underlying input data are usually household budget surveys conducted by government agencies that track spending of selected households over a given period.The data has been converted from local currencies to US$ using the average constant exchange rate of the base year 2017. The timelines therefore do not incorporate currency effects. The data is shown in real terms which means that monetary data is valued at constant prices of a given base year (in this case: 2017). To attain constant prices the nominal forecast has been deflated with the projected consumer price index for the respective category.Find more key insights for the real total consumer spending on education in countries like Sudan and Algeria.

More than 8.04 million people recovered from coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa as of November 22, 2021. As the most affected country in the continent, South Africa also registered the highest number of recoveries, roughly 2.82 million, or 35.1 percent of the total. In Morocco, 931,143 patients recovered from the disease. The third country with more recoveries in the continent was Tunisia, with 690,033.

It is worth noting that, as of the same date, the cases of coronavirus in Africa amounted to more than 8.66 million, while the fatalities due to the disease reached 222,276. By the period, there were 395,868 active cases in the continent.

As of March 15, 2023, Seychelles was the African country with the highest coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination rate, with around 205 doses administered per 100 individuals. Mauritius and Rwanda followed with 201 and 190 doses per 100 people, respectively. Ranking fourth, Morocco had a vaccination rate of approximately 148 doses per 100 people, registering the third-highest number of inoculations after Egypt and Nigeria. In South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, the vaccination rate instead reached around 64 per 100 population.

How did Africa obtain the vaccines?

Vaccines in Africa were obtained in different ways. African nations both purchased new doses and received them from other countries. At the beginning of the vaccination campaigns, donations came from all over the world, such as China, the United Arab Emirates, India, and Russia. The United Nations-led COVAX initiative provided Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech doses to several African countries. Within this program, the continent received nearly 270 million doses as of January 2022. Moreover, the vaccination campaign has also been an occasion for intra-African solidarity. Senegal has, for instance, donated vaccines to the Gambia, while in January 2021, Algeria announced that it would have shared its supply with Tunisia.

COVID-19 impact on the African economy

The spread of COVID-19 negatively affected socio-economic growth in Africa, with the continent’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracting significantly in 2020. Specifically, Southern Africa experienced the sharpest decline, at minus six percent, followed by North Africa at minus 1.7 percent. Most of Africa’s key economic sectors were hit by the pandemic. The drop in global oil prices led to a crisis in the oil and gas sector. Nigeria, the continent’s leading oil-exporting country, witnessed a considerable decrease in crude oil trade in 2020. Moreover, the shrinking number of international tourist arrivals determined a loss of over 12 million jobs in Africa’s travel and tourism sector. Society has also been substantially affected by COVID-19 on the poorest continent in the world, and the number of people living in extreme poverty was estimated to increase by around 30 million in 2020.

In 2023, Singapore dominated the ranking of the world's health and health systems, followed by Japan and South Korea. The health index score is calculated by evaluating various indicators that assess the health of the population, and access to the services required to sustain good health, including health outcomes, health systems, sickness and risk factors, and mortality rates. The health and health system index score of the top ten countries with the best healthcare system in the world ranged between 82 and 86.9, measured on a scale of zero to 100.

Global Health Security Index  Numerous health and health system indexes have been developed to assess various attributes and aspects of a nation's healthcare system. One such measure is the Global Health Security (GHS) index. This index evaluates the ability of 195 nations to identify, assess, and mitigate biological hazards in addition to political and socioeconomic concerns, the quality of their healthcare systems, and their compliance with international finance and standards. In 2021, the United States was ranked at the top of the GHS index, but due to multiple reasons, the U.S. government failed to effectively manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The GHS Index evaluates capability and identifies preparation gaps; nevertheless, it cannot predict a nation's resource allocation in case of a public health emergency.

Universal Health Coverage Index  Another health index that is used globally by the members of the United Nations (UN) is the universal health care (UHC) service coverage index. The UHC index monitors the country's progress related to the sustainable developmental goal (SDG) number three. The UHC service coverage index tracks 14 indicators related to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, service capacity, and access to care. The main target of universal health coverage is to ensure that no one is denied access to essential medical services due to financial hardships. In 2021, the UHC index scores ranged from as low as 21 to a high score of 91 across 194 countries.