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Algeria and Morocco joined countries on the red list of France on Friday, August 20. This list applies to countries where “active circulation of the virus is observed with the presence of variants of concern”. Unvaccinated people returning from these two countries must present a convincing reason, a PCR test in less than 48 hours and must isolate themselves for ten days.
Morocco and Algeria are facing a third wave of Covid-19 that is stronger than the previous ones, especially Morocco, where the number of new infections is declining slightly this week but is still high with almost 10,000 new infections daily. Africa’s third most grieving country with more than 11,400 deaths, just behind Tunisia and South Africa, still registers an average of around 100 daily deaths in the last seven days.
In Algeria, the signals are less alarming and the peak of the third wave seems to have passed. For 20 days, the number of daily cases has steadily decreased. On August 19, the country registered an average of 719 new infections in the past week and 31 deaths.
1.7% of Algerians received two doses. On the vaccination side, Algeria is far behind its Moroccan neighbor with only 1.7% of the population fully vaccinated on 19 August, against 35% in Morocco.
The vaccination rate for the Algerian population is on average on the African continent, which presented a full vaccination coverage of 1.6% on 30 July.
We are a little surprised by this decision – making because we initially put people in the red zone when I think these decisions have not been carefully considered.
Yasmine, member of the association Le Grand Maghreb
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