Will Morocco extend the lockdown for the second time to avoid the spread of the coronavirus ? Less than five days before the previously scheduled end of the containment, Arabic-language daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia reported that the Health Ministry would be in favor of extending the lockdown for 15 days. This recommendation was reportedly submitted by the Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb to the department in charge of the management of the coronavirus pandemic in Morocco. During
Moroccan-American-Belgian pharmaceutical executive Moncef Slaoui was officially appointed, Friday, by President Donald Trump as chief scientist of the United States vaccine efforts. Speaking today, Slaoui said that Operation Warp Speed may deliver coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020.
As of Friday, May 15, Morocco recorded 45 new confirmed coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 6,652. The number of recoveries has reached 3,400, with 90 new recovered cases, which increases the recovery rate to 51.1%, Mohamed Lyoubi, head of the epidemiology department at the Ministry of Health, said Friday. He recalled that the number of people having recovered is higher than that of active cases. He added that the total number of deaths
While stranded abroad, several parents have left their children behind in Morocco without knowing when and how they will be home again. Seperated, hurt and shaken by the situation, some of them shared their struggle with Yabiladi.
Stranded in Melilla for almost two months due to the coronavirus health crisis, a group of Moroccans will finally be able to return home. Some of them confirmed to Yabiladi that a repatriation operation is bringing 200 nationals, namely women, children, senior and sick people, to Morocco on Friday. «Having heard of this possibility, several young people headed to the Beni Ensar border crossing», a Moroccan stranded in Melilla told Yabiladi. On the same day, Spanish radio
A 35-year-old Moroccan woman was found dead, Thursday, in Melilla. She is one of the Moroccan nationals stranded in the city due to the coronavirus health crisis. According to sources contacted by Yabiladi, the woman is from Driouch, a small town in eastern Morocco. She used to work as a made in the city and was reportedly fired by her employers when the lockdown happened. Unable to return home, the woman joined other Moroccans awaiting repatriation. The same sources indicate that the woman's
Algeria has summoned Morocco’s ambassador after a viral video that showed a Moroccan diplomat calling Algeria an «enemy» country, the Algerian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. A statement issued by the ministry revealed that Algeria’s ambassador to Rabat was summoned on Wednesday over «comments by Morocco’s consul general in Oran during an exchange with Moroccan citizens», AFP reports. The Algerian Foreign Ministry argued in the same statement that
16 new confirmed coronavirus cases were recorded between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning in Morocco, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 6,623, the health Ministry announced. In a recent update, the Ministry reported that 73,882 suspected cases have tested negative for the virus so far. While deaths related to the coronavirus stand at 190, the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered in the Kingdom has reached 3,383. The confirmed coronavirus cases in the
Private schools have criticized the decision of postponing the reopening of schools in Morocco. They see the decision as a coup de grace to a «vulnerable» sector.
As of Thursday, May 14, Morocco recorded 95 new confirmed coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 6,607. Almost half of these cases have been recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region. Cases have been detected, to a lesser extent, in the regions of Marrakech-Safi, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Fez-Meknes and Rabat-Salé-Kenitra, said Mohamed Lyoubi, head of the epidemiology department at the Ministry of Health, during a daily press
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