President Emmanuel Macron remotely exchanged, on Monday, March 23, 2020, with representatives of religions in France due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the confinement decreed. It emerges that the Ramadan celebration will have to "be done without gathering".
Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) has made some proposals focused on the replacement of collective prayers.
The association El Badr offered, last Thursday, March 19, 10,000 FFP2 masks to hospitals and healthcare professionals in Moselle.
Morocco has ended, this Sunday, March 22 at 12 p.m., the special system set up to facilitate the return of foreign tourists to their countries.
A Transavia flight chartered by the French State ensured, on Friday, March 20, the repatriation to France of the wife of the politician André Payraud. Andrée-Françoise had been blocked in Morocco since March 9, 2020 because of the coronavirus.
The elements of the national security of the Ibn Battouta international airport in Tanger proceeded to the arrest of a French citizen of Algerian origin. He would be involved in an attempted drug trafficking.
In an effort to contribute to the national effort, the humanitarian NGO BarakaCity has donated medical equipment to hospitals in the Île-de-France region, in order to fight the spread of the coronavirus. In total, more than 1,300 masks have been distributed.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, has promised a global repatriation mechanism for French citizens stranded in certain countries, including Morocco, following the suspension of flights decided by these host countries, due to the spread of the coronavirus.
Some 400 French tourists are stranded in Morocco due to the total suspension of air traffic. The people of Haut-Rhin do not know when they will return to France.
Funeral washing and repatriation of people who died of COVID-19 are prohibited in France. This decision is in line with the preventive measures against the spread of the virus.
The French, stranded in Morocco , are struggling with the spread of the coronavirus. In addition to the total suspension of air travel and the closure of borders that are trapping them in the kingdom, they are facing hostile behavior.
Faced with the spread of the new coronavirus, the French authorities have decided to extend the duration of residence permits in the country.