COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco

COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Morocco
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Casablanca
Arrival date	2 March 2020 (4 years, 2 months and 6 days)
Confirmed cases	1,272,490 (9 March 2023)[1]
Active cases	325,958
Recovered	930,236 (15 November 2021)[2]
Deaths	16,296 (9 March 2023)[1]
Government website
covidmaroc.ma

The COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Morocco on 2 March 2020, when the first case COVID-19 case was confirmed in Casablanca.^[3] It involved a Moroccan expatriate residing in Bergamo, Italy, who arrived from Italy on 27 February. A second case was confirmed later that same day involving an 89-year-old Moroccan woman residing in Italy who had returned to Morocco on 25 February from Bologna, Italy.^[4] As the outbreak widened in Morocco, in mid-March the Government closed schools and suspended international passenger flights.

As of 6 August 2021^[update], there have been 676,683 confirmed cases, of which 598,958 have recovered and 10,163 have died. The government officially counts that 14,981,732 citizens have received the first vaccine injection, of whom 10,870,130 have also received the second injection.^[5][6]