Morocco Considers Suspending Flights to Belgium as COVID Cases Surge

Two regions of the country have turned dark red on the map of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), after its update on Thursday. These are Brussels, whose incidence rate as of October 28 is 670, according to the Belgian Institute of Public Health, Sciensano. A region turns dark red when the incidence rate, which indicates the average number of new daily cases per 100,000 inhabitants over 14 consolidated days, exceeds 500, it is explained. The second region is Wallonia. It has returned to dark red this week because its incidence rate exceeds 500.

Flanders is, for the moment, in red due to an incidence rate between 200 and 500. However, it could return to dark red, as the incidence rate has already exceeded 500 in four of the five provinces in the north of the country. East Flanders is the only region whose incidence rate as of October 28 is 382.

These epidemiological data could push the Moroccan authorities to suspend air links between Morocco and Belgium. To date, the kingdom has banned flights with Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom due to the worrying health situation in these four countries.