Morocco Faces PCR Test Shortage as COVID-19 Cases Surge
24 August 2021
Medical analysis laboratories are running out of extraction kits and amplification reagents, materials necessary for PCR tests. A very delicate situation, especially since (…)
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Morocco Reassesses COVID Strategy as Herd Immunity Goal Proves Elusive
24 August 2021
Achieving collective immunity should not be considered the only solution to lift restrictions, says Tayeb Hamdi, a physician and researcher in health policies and systems, as (…)
UK Considers Adding Morocco to COVID-19 Travel Red List Amid Rising Cases
24 August 2021
The British government will review the list of countries according to their health situation. Given the current situation and the high rate of Covid-19 contamination, Morocco (…)
Morocco’s Covid-19 Cases Rise Despite Declining Positivity Rate, Delta Variant Spreads
23 August 2021
The latest Covid-19 report in Morocco shows a total of 11,792 deaths and nearly 4,661 new cases in 24 hours, while the positivity rate is stabilizing. Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and (…)
Morocco Partners with Israel on COVID-19 Vaccine Production
23 August 2021
Relations between Morocco and Israel are further strengthening. The kingdom has associated the Hebrew state with its Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing projects.
Morocco Receives 2 Million COVID Vaccine Doses, Targets Youth Vaccination
22 August 2021
Pfizer/BioNTech and Sinopharm delivered nearly two million doses of their Covid-19 vaccines to Morocco on Saturday. Time for the ministries concerned to ensure logistics, the (…)
AstraZeneca’s Antibody Treatment Shows Promise in Preventing Symptomatic Covid-19
20 August 2021
The AZD7442 treatment from the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca has shown its effectiveness in preventing Covid-19. The laboratory conducted the trials in Spain, (…)
Fake Doctors Scam Patients at Marrakech Hospital, Multiple Arrests Made
20 August 2021
At the Ibn Tofail hospital in Marrakech, individuals, under the cover of the respectable garb of the fake doctor, defrauded families of patients. Caught in the act, some of (…)
France Adds Morocco to COVID-19 Red List Amid Surge in Cases
19 August 2021
Morocco has been classified by France on the red list of "countries where the virus is circulating quite actively with worrying variants". Like Morocco, Algeria will also be on (…)
Morocco Slashes Prices on 70 Medicines, Including Cancer Treatments
19 August 2021
The Ministry of Health has published a new list of medicines whose prices will be lowered. A total of 70 medicines are affected.