One man’s misfortune is another man’s fortune. The widespread spread of the Coronavirus epidemic in China has prompted large companies to want to leave the country in search of other horizons.
The coronavirus, which has been raging in China for weeks, is already producing shockwaves on the Moroccan economy.
Morocco is taking strong measures to maintain permanent vigilance in the face of the coronavirus epidemic that is hitting China hard and creating a general psychosis worldwide. A new control mechanism has been put in place.
While Wuhan, the metropolis in central China where the epidemic originated, has been cut off from the world for several weeks, the Moroccans repatriated from this city are in good health and awaiting their return home. An official from the Ministry of Health indicates that the lifting of the medical observation of the repatriates could take place in the coming days.
No coronavirus contamination has been detected among the Moroccan nationals repatriated a few days ago from Wuhan, China. The head of the communicable disease control division at the Ministry of Health confirmed this on Monday in Rabat.
A surveillance system has been activated at the Guerguerat border post, in southern Morocco, to effectively deal with the threat posed by the coronavirus.
The admission of a French couple, suspected of carrying the coronavirus, to the Ibn Zohr provincial hospital in Marrakech , caused widespread panic.
A 22-year-old individual, who filmed and disseminated a video discouraging Moroccans from going to Meknes because of the coronavirus, was arrested.
The elements of the judicial police at the police headquarters in Fez arrested, on Monday evening, February 3, a young woman involved in the dissemination of a false video about a Chinese national presumed to be infected with the Coronavirus .
The national system for epidemiological surveillance and control has received 5 alerts about the Coronavirus to date, according to the Minister of State in charge of Human Rights and Relations with Parliament, Mustapha Ramid .
Despite the extent of the rumors, no case of coronavirus contamination has yet been recorded in Morocco, said Mustapha Ramid, Minister of State in charge of Human Rights and Relations with Parliament, on Monday in Rabat. The country remains on alert and vigilance.
Morocco will lose 28,000 Chinese clients in the hotel industry during the month of February due to the Coronavirus, which has been raging in China for a few weeks.