The health authorities of the province of Essaouira have adopted new measures at the Mogador international airport, after the appearance of a new variant of Covid-19 in certain European countries. The provincial health delegation remains highly mobilized to protect the population and prevent the spread of this virus on a local scale.
The emergence in the United Kingdom of a new strain of Coronavirus following a mutation is causing panic everywhere, to the point that Morocco has decided to suspend flights between the two countries. But information has been circulating since then, claiming that this new variant of the virus has been detected in Morocco.
The Ministry of Health announced the death of 32 people in Morocco due to the coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths since the beginning of the epidemic in March last to 7,240.
34 deaths due to coronavirus were recorded in the last 24 hours in Morocco , the Ministry of Health announced. Since last March, 7,204 deaths have been recorded in the country.
Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb said in a government meeting on Thursday that Morocco has ordered 65 million doses of the two vaccines it has identified for 25 million people.
Brother Jean-Pierre Schumacher, 97 years old, overcame the coronavirus after fifteen days of hospitalization in Rabat .
The Ministry of Health reported the death of some 40 Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours, bringing the number of deaths to 7,170 since the start of the epidemic in Morocco last March.
44 deaths were recorded in 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health. The number of people who have succumbed to Covid-19 in Morocco since the beginning of the epidemic now stands at 7,130, with a fatality rate of 1.7%.
By imposing a curfew, the Moroccan authorities are also targeting restaurants, cafes and other large retail establishments, which must close at 8 p.m. The curfew and the new restrictive measures came into effect on Wednesday, December 23.
The European Union is coming to the aid of Morocco in the fight against Covid-19. It has just made 169 million euros available to the Moroccan authorities to strengthen the medical response and implement measures to mitigate the socio-economic impact of the pandemic.
Covid-19 has killed 56 people in the last 24 hours in Morocco, bringing the total number of deaths recorded since the start of Covid-19 in March last year to 7,086.
693 foreigners are "on the way" to obtaining French nationality and 74 have already obtained it out of a total of 2,890 applications registered by the prefectures.