
Morocco Reports 4,178 New COVID-19 Cases, 163 Severe, as Total Infections Near 341,000
4,178 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Morocco in the last 24 hours, including 163 severe and critical cases.

4,178 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Morocco in the last 24 hours, including 163 severe and critical cases.

In order to reduce the pressure of demand on certain places of worship in Morocco, an increasing process of opening mosques is planned. However, for some closed mosques, the fundamental problem is related to the financing of renovation work.

The Minister of Health, [Khalid Aït Taleb], assures that the Moroccan government is striving to "avoid a national lockdown at all costs". He announces the arrival of the first vaccines by December.

Heavily impacted this year by Covid-19 and its corollaries, tourism and air transport are receiving a breath of fresh air from the government. For the year 2021, the supervisory ministry benefits from more than 534 million DH to relaunch tourism activities that have been sluggish since last March and support the air transport sector which is facing an unprecedented crisis.

The health crisis related to the coronavirus has had a negative impact on tourism investments to the point of darkening the horizon of a better tomorrow.

After the statements of the Minister of Health, it is the turn of the National Health Insurance Agency (ANAM) to put a brake on the actions of certain private clinics in Morocco.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Morocco has recorded 5,539 deaths with a mortality rate of 1.6%. Several reasons are behind this increase, explained the Minister of Health.

Morocco recorded 70 deaths due to the coronavirus. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 5,539 people have died from Covid-19 in the Kingdom.

4,979 new coronavirus infection cases were recorded in Morocco in the last 24 hours, with 119 severe and critical cases.

King Mohammed VI, accompanied by Prince Moulay Rachid, paid tribute on Wednesday, November 25, to the tomb of the late King Hassan II, on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of his passing.

The quota of new Moroccan seasonal workers selected for the 2020-2021 agricultural season has been reduced by 30% of its workforce. These are women selected during the previous season but who were blocked in Morocco following the closure of air borders due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

As of the end of September 2020, the number of beneficiaries of the deferral of the maturities of real estate and consumer loans for people impacted by the health crisis related to Covid-19 , put in place on March 19 by the Economic Monitoring Committee, reached 471,742 households in the Kingdom. At the same time, 32,248 requests from companies were validated by the banking sector.