Morocco expects Omicron to be the dominating Covid-19 variant in the few upcoming days and has urged citizens to take a third dose to reinforce collective immunity, health minister Khalid Ait Taleb said. Speaking to AL Oula TV channel, Ait Taleb said that Omicron can spread five times faster than Delta but its lethality rate was lower. Health ministry’s experts expect the Omicron wave to last shorter but to affect a larger number due to the high contagiousness of the virus. Morocco has Africa’s largest vaccination campaign inoculating so far 24.5 million people. But only 2.86 million people took a booster jab.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 30, 2021 09:40 UTC