Morocco has recorded 50 deaths due to the coronavirus. The number of people who have succumbed to Covid-19 in the Kingdom since the beginning of the epidemic now stands at 3,255, with a fatality rate of 1.7%.
Studies on Covid-19 are multiplying around the world. A recent Dutch study on the MedRxiv server shows that the flu vaccine could prevent infection.
Four years in prison for the nurse-anesthetist and the representative of a pharmaceutical company, involved in the diversion of drugs and medical devices at the Fez University Hospital. The verdict has finally been handed down by the criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal.
The Secretary General of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU), Nabila Mounib, is not yet convinced of the "effectiveness" of the anti-Covid-19 vaccines. "I’m afraid for Moroccans..." she said, urging her compatriots not to try them.
The Moroccan healthcare staff, the first soldiers on the front line since the first cases of the coronavirus were recorded, are saving lives at the cost of their own. Since last March, nearly 1500 members of the medical staff have been infected, and about twenty of them have died.
The controversy has resurfaced again on the subject of the treatment of Covid-19 patients with Chloroquine. While another study has demonstrated its ineffectiveness in the therapeutic protocol, Morocco prefers to continue with this drug that has been giving positive results since its adoption.
The worrying increase in Covid-19 cases in Casablanca has prompted local authorities to tighten access and transit conditions in the city. Any offender will be liable to a heavy fine.
73 people died in the last 24 hours in Morocco due to the coronavirus. These figures constitute a record in the country since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic in the country.
Travel to France is now subject to a new procedure. This is the decision of the Castex government following the increase in new contaminations due to the coronavirus.
New restrictive measures have been taken by the local authorities of the prefecture of M’diq-Fnideq, including the imposition of a night curfew. They take effect this Friday, October 23.
Morocco recorded 53 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, bringing the number of Covid-19 deaths in the Kingdom to 3,123 since the start of the epidemic.
The members of a family in Beni Mellal had already started the administrative procedures to recover the body of their relative, when they became aware of the error made by the hospital management.