After deciding on Thursday, March 12, to suspend all air and sea links with Spain due to the coronavirus, Morocco has exceptionally planned to open two border crossings on Friday evening.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a slight increase in the prices of certain food products in Morocco has been recorded.
For some Moroccan Salafists, the coronavirus would be a "divine punishment", brushing aside all the other theories put forward to explain the epidemic.
In the face of the coronavirus epidemic, the imams in charge of the Friday, March 13 sermon in the mosques of Morocco will raise awareness among the faithful of the dangers of the virus.
Morocco confirmed a new case of coronavirus infection on Friday, March 13, 2020.
The scarcity of rainfall and the Coronavirus will not fail to weigh heavily on the Moroccan economy. In its growth forecasts for the year 2020, the High Commission for Planning (HCP) plans to revise its figures downward.
While the French president has announced the closure of nurseries, schools, colleges, high schools and universities to fight the spread of the coronavirus, many people are wondering about the fate of the schools of the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE) located in Morocco.
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is far from done canceling its flights to destinations heavily exposed to the coronavirus. It announced on Thursday the suspension of all its flights to and from Spain, until further notice, to remain in line with the preventive measures taken by the Moroccan authorities.
After China and Italy, Morocco could also decide to suspend its flights to or from France.
Morocco and Algeria have just suspended their air links due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Morocco has just decided, in consultation with the Spanish authorities, to suspend, until further notice, air flights and passenger maritime traffic to and from Spain.
The outbreak of the new Coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Spain and catching the authorities off guard. Infectious outbreaks have developed in all corners of the country.