Rabat - 09 August 2022- The Ministry of Health and Social Protection announced on Tuesday the end of the second wave of Omicron, after two consecutive weeks of "low green" vigilance level of COVID-19 community circulation and the beginning of the post-wave phase or the fourth intermediate period.

"Morocco has experienced a fourth wave of community circulation of COVID-19 that lasted 11 weeks and reached its peak in the two weeks from June 20 to July 03," said the coordinator of the National Center for Emergency Operations of Public Health of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Mouad Mrabet, in his presentation of the bi-monthly review of the epidemiological situation (July 05 to August 08, 2022).

The end of an epidemic wave does not mean the end of the epidemic, warned Mrabet, stressing that the spread of the virus will continue at a low level with the possibility of the appearance of a possible, but not imminent, wave.

In the same context, the Moroccan official noted that the last two weeks have been marked by a gradual decline in the level of virus circulation, he assured, noting that the rate of positivity of the tests went from 22.6% during the peak week to 3.2% last week, with an index of reproduction of cases that stands at 0.83.