The French Ambassador to Morocco, Hélène Le Gal, announced on Friday, March 27, that the validity of residence permits for Moroccans currently in France, as well as for French people in Morocco, is extended by three months.
Exporters in the Souss-Massa region can rejoice. A new shipping line now connects the port of Agadir to Port-Vendres in France. The good news was announced by the National Ports Agency.
Morocco has never cured five coronavirus cases thanks to chloroquine, according to information reported by Le Monde.
Steeve and his little family left their commune of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan in the Hautes-Pyrénées on March 4 for a vacation in Morocco and Spain. This was without counting on the setbacks of the health crisis related to the spread of the coronavirus.
Not all French people left Morocco after the announcement of the first case of coronavirus contamination. Some have decided to stay and face, like the Moroccans, the coronavirus pandemic.
Like other African countries in the Maghreb or other continents, Morocco has facilitated the return of French tourists, blocked at certain airports, to their country. For this, the kingdom has been congratulated by the French Secretary of State for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
A young man of Moroccan origin was attacked in the center of Avignon. His condition is stable, despite several injuries to the chest.
Due to the coronavirus epidemic and the strengthening of containment rules, including the closure of open markets, Moroccan fruits and vegetables, which are very popular in the country, will no longer be able to cross the borders of France.
In Europe, fruits and vegetables from Morocco continue to be in vogue despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Europeans are facing a myriad of dysfunctions in supply chains, including a lack of manpower.
The national coach, Vahid Halilhodzic, confined in Paris due to the coronavirus epidemic, declares to be afraid for Africa, especially for Morocco in view of the proportions that the epidemic is taking on the continent and in the kingdom.
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.