The new three-week restrictions imposed by the government are bringing restaurateurs to their knees. They have made proposals to the Head of Government in order to save this sector heavily impacted by the health crisis of the coronavirus.
The Ministry of Health has announced that as of December 20, the reproduction rate (R0) of Covid-19 in Morocco is showing a slight continuous improvement and is stabilizing at 0.93.
The Ministry of Health announced 30 deaths due to the coronavirus, bringing the total number of people who have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the epidemic in March to 7,030 in the country.
Morocco is facing a severe shortage of oxygen concentrators. Faced with the high demand for these devices not available on the market, the lives of many people with coronavirus are in danger.
The Minister of Tourism, Nadia Fettah Alaoui, indicated on Monday in Rabat that her department is working, in coordination with its partners, to put in place special checks to reduce travel costs. The aim is to encourage domestic tourism.
Spain has announced that it has recently organized a new repatriation operation for the benefit of 545 Spanish nationals and Moroccan residents on board a ferry from the port of Tanger Med to Algeciras. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, this is the 44th time that Spain has organized this type of operation.
Morocco wants to go beyond the suspension of flights with the United Kingdom, following the discovery of a new variant of Covid-19. A monitoring cell has been set up to closely monitor its evolution.
Moroccans will have to come to terms with it, those who thought the restrictive measures would be eased in some way at the end of the year. Not only have the measures been maintained, but others have been added.
43 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health announced, bringing to 7,000 the number of people who have died from the coronavirus in Morocco since the start of Covid-19 last March.
Gims, a keen observer of Moroccan political news, has renewed his support for the kingdom and its Sahara. The French rapper, who now lives between Paris and Marrakech, also thanked King Mohammed VI for the strong measures taken to counter the coronavirus.
In Morocco, things are becoming clearer for the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. The kingdom will receive a first batch of vaccines before the end of 2020.
The inhabitants of Taroudant will spend the new year under new restrictive measures imposed by the local authorities, for the next 15 days. This is the decision taken by the authorities to deal with the abnormally high rate of contamination.