Border Closure Leads to Rare Day with No Births in Ceuta on New Year’s

The maternity ward of the University Hospital of Ceuta did not record any births on the first day of the year 2021, EFE observes. According to the National Institute of Health Management (INGESA), the body that manages health care in Ceuta and Melilla, this is a rare event.

Normally, the first child of the year in this autonomous city was a Moroccan woman. But the data has changed this year with the closure of the border with Morocco.

Last year, the first baby of the year was born at 2:05 a.m. A girl named Marya Diane whose parents are Moroccan.