France has decided to subject all people, including Moroccans who have received the Russian Sputnik or Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, to a PCR test before entering its territory. Reason given: the European Medicines Agency has not yet authorized these vaccines.
Morocco has seen its tomato exports to Russia collapse over the past four years, reaching less than 36,000 tons in 2020. A figure three times less than in 2016.
A survey conducted by Hortoinfo reveals that the export of Moroccan tomatoes shows a variable curve on the European market. While it is increasingly consumed in France, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, Russia seems to be turning its back on it.
After receiving the batch of anti-Covid vaccine from the Chinese Sinopharm laboratory, Morocco is about to receive its first doses of the Russian vaccine. This is what sources from the Ministry of Health have confirmed.
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) will fly to Russia in the coming days to ensure the delivery of the Sputnik V vaccine batches ordered by Morocco. The Ministry of Health has not yet confirmed the information.
Five draft laws relating to international agreements were unanimously validated by the House of Representatives in plenary session this week. Among them is the cooperation agreement with Russia aimed at developing bilateral cooperation in the field of fisheries.
Russia, a traditional ally of Algeria, is preparing to install a naval base in Oran, not far from the border with Morocco. This would allow the neighbor to the east to put pressure on Morocco or to have a protector.
A maritime partnership agreement has just been adopted between a Moroccan parliamentary commission and Russia. This document replaces the 2016 agreement, which came to an end in March 2020.
While Morocco was supposed to receive a first batch of the Russian Sputnik vaccine at the end of March, the status quo remains. And for good reason, no commercial agreement has yet been signed between the two countries.
Morocco will receive, in the next few days, 4.2 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Russia, South Korea and China, in order to achieve herd immunity before the summer. This announcement was made by a Moroccan official.
Morocco is concerned about the depletion of its stock of anti-Covid-19 vaccines. It is also mobilizing to obtain deliveries from 4 suppliers in the coming days.
The police services arrested, this week, in Casablanca a Franco-Algerian and a Russian national, involved in various cases. They were both the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by Interpol.