The budget allocated to the health sector in Morocco has increased by 25% between 2016 and 2020. This was stated this week by the Head of Government during the presentation of the progress report on the government’s action.
Faced with the spread of the Delta variant in Spain and Portugal, France has advised its citizens against traveling to these two countries. Will it make the same recommendation regarding travel to Morocco, where the same variant is also circulating?
Faced with the resurgence of coronavirus cases in Morocco, particularly in Casablanca , the Ministry of the Interior has decided to strengthen controls in neighborhoods and on the outskirts. For its part, the gendarmerie is deploying roadblocks on all national roads and at the entrances to cities.
The Salafist preacher Abdelhamid Abu Naim died on Thursday, July 8 in a Casablanca clinic following a Covid-19 infection. He was 65 years old.
The Indian (Delta) variant of Covid-19 has been raging in Morocco for a few weeks. The Minister of Health, Khalid Aït Taleb, says that dozens of cases have been recorded in four regions of the kingdom. He once again warns Moroccans against a tightening of health measures.
Medication prices have been revised in Morocco. While the costs of several products have fallen, this is not the case for 7 drugs whose price has rather increased.
A short-lived victory for the monitoring team, the outbreaks of the Indian Delta variant, recorded in Casablanca and Kénitra , would have been brought under control. This, thanks to the proactivity of all the specialists and the Ministry of the Interior, who once again call for not letting down the barrier measures.
The threshold of 20 million doses should be crossed in the very near future. In 23 consecutive weeks of vaccination, the number of fully vaccinated people has reached 9,181,595, while the primary vaccinated now stand at 10,119,393.
Morocco received an additional one million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. This will allow the kingdom to resume the administration of the first dose.
The Covid-19 reproduction rate has crossed the 1 bar and is unfortunately progressing in recent days. This, despite numerous calls to respect preventive measures. The data show a progression of 1.3 at the national level during the last two weeks (June 22/July 05).
The Delta variant , known to be highly contagious, is present on the national territory. "It will become dominant in a few weeks," according to the director of the Biotechnology Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Azeddine Ibrahimi.
Moroccan Mohamed Amezian El Harrak, security guard in charge of reception at the San Pedro de Alcántara Health Center (southern Spain), was forced to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a man who arrived in a state of choking at the center.