Morocco’s health ministry this week announced the end of the Omicron wave in the country, after eleven weeks of recording the first case of the highly contagious Covid-19 variant in the city of Casablanca.

“The Omicron wave was, as expected, a fast and short wave that lasted 11 weeks. It peaked in the week of January 17 to 23, 2022,” said Moaz al-Mrabet, coordinator of the National Center for Public Emergency Operations at the Ministry of Health, during the bi-monthly brief of the pandemic situation on Tuesday.

Known for its hyper-transmissibility and mild symptoms, the Omicron variant of concern is currently the dominant variant circulating globally.