Morocco Provides Support for 1,000 Foreign Students Stranded on Campuses Amid COVID-19 Crisis

"These students are now our guests, and it is impossible to abandon them in this critical situation," said the director. Noureddine Tehami assured that the Office is taking care of these students and making available to them everything they need during this period marked by the spread of covid-19.

According to the statistics communicated by the authority, out of a total of 50,174 residents on university campuses, 49,122 students have returned to their families. But the remaining 1,052 are still living on the campuses, including foreign students and others in medicine called to hospitals as reinforcements in the face of this critical situation, as well as those from orphanages, the authority specifies.

For the director, the decision to close the university residences is a necessary action that is imposed in view of the measures taken by the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research. These include the suspension of face-to-face classes, the adoption of a new work program for teaching staff (distance learning).

Other measures: all the dependencies of the university residences, including restaurants, libraries and various rooms, have been disinfected.