RABAT, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Morocco announced on Wednesday the detection of its first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
The infected case is a woman living in Casablanca, the health ministry said in a statement.
Morocco has so far vaccinated over 70 percent of its targeted population, but vaccine hesitancy seems to be going up since November.
A total of 24,475,639 people have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, including 22,797,887 who have received two doses, and 2,099,402 who have received the third booster dose.
The North African country launched a nationwide vaccination campaign on Jan. 28 after the arrival of the first shipment of China's Sinopharm vaccines. Enditem
