For more than a month, Christian and Bernadette Garroui have been waiting to return to Laval (in Mayenne). But it is almost impossible, given the preventive measures taken by the Moroccan authorities to fight against the coronavirus. It is a tradition for the couple to come and spend three months in Morocco every year.
Kathy, a Belgian from Charleroi, is stuck in Morocco with her 3 and 5 year old children for several weeks. The closure of Morocco’s borders due to the coronavirus is at the root of this blockage, the outcome of which is difficult to envisage, even though Kathy wants to return to take care of her other children left in Belgium.
Activities in the two Renault-Morocco factories, in Casablanca and Tangier, have resumed since April 27.
The bill 23.20 approving decree-law No. 2.20.292 relating to the provisions relating to the state of health emergency and the procedures for its declaration, was adopted this Wednesday, May 7, by a majority of votes with the exception of one abstention.
The end-of-year exams will indeed take place in Morocco, despite all the rumors saying they were canceled. The Ministry of National Education says that students will be summoned after the confinement period.
More than 86 Moroccan retailers, gathered in a collective called the "Grouping of Moroccan Retailers", have just made an official request to suspend their rents.
The lifting of confinement from May 20 could tip the epidemiological situation of the kingdom into the red. Former Health Minister Houcine El Ouardi warns against any haste that could wipe out all the efforts and sacrifices made in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic since March.
The resumption of industrial activity has its drawbacks. A major coronavirus outbreak has been identified in Casablanca, within three neighboring companies, located in the heart of the Sidi Bernoussi industrial zone.
Studies conducted in several countries have confirmed the presence of traces of the coronavirus genome in wastewater from the stools of infected people. In a note addressed to the walis and governors, the Ministry of the Interior warns against the non-regulatory use of wastewater and the resulting risks of contamination.
Morocco continues to record daily cases of covid-19 contamination. Industrial and family clusters remain a difficult equation to solve.
Faced with the delicate period that Royal Air Maroc is going through, Malika Lahnait, a lawyer at the Paris Bar, specialist in air transport and tourism law, looks back on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Moroccan tourism and RAM.
Following the announcement of the state of health emergency in Morocco and the ban on travel, a Moroccan, stranded in Tangier , was forced to walk 500 kilometers to be able to join his family in Missour.