On Monday, Morocco announced that it would launch a massive Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the coming weeks. This comes as Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories said that their vaccine has been found to be more than 90% effective. What is vaccine efficacy and how does it act on disease and infection ?
More than 1,600 migrants were rescued at sea or reached the Canary Islands over the weekend via the Atlantic route, emergency services told the Associated Press on Sunday. Rescuers near the island of El Hierro recovered the body of one person who died while trying to reach the Spanish archipelago. Another migrant was airlifted by a helicopter to a hospital, the same source added. Reaching the Canary Islands via Morocco has become an important route in 2020 for migrants. Since the beginning of
Patients who recovered quickly from Covid-19, showing short-lived symptoms, tend to sustain antibody production for longer periods, when compared to slow healers, a study finds.
Morocco recorded the highest number of deaths in 24 hours on Monday, bringing the number of people who died from the virus to 4,356. The number of critically ill patients reached 959, 73 of them are on ventilators.
After carrying out provocative actions against the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces in Mijek and Guerguerate, the Polisario accuses Morocco and calls for armed mobilization.
American and German laboratories Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that their Covid-19 vaccine has been found to be more than 90 percent effective. According to AFP, the vaccine’s efficacy was measured by comparing the number of participants infected with the new coronavirus in the group that received the vaccine and in that under placebo, seven days after the second dose and 28 days after the first one, they explained in a joint press release. «More than eight months after the
Morocco's Minister of Foreign Affairs received his French counterpart on Monday, November, reports Diplomatie.ma. During this meeting, Nasser Bourita and Jean Yves Le Drian «discussed the exceptional bilateral relations which continue to be strengthened on several levels. They also addressed subjects of common interest, such as the Libyan crisis and the security situation in the Sahel», the same source added. This is Le Drian's third visit to Morocco since his appointment,
A group of researchers discovered the fossils of the first duckbilled dinosaur that swam to Africa. Found in Morocco, the beast is believed to have crossed oceans to get to its destination.
International NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, Sunday that Morocco’s highest court is «examining the case of 19 men imprisoned since 2010 after violent clashes with the police», referring to the Gdeim Izik cases. In a statement, HRW recalled that the Cassation Court reviewed on November 5 a lower-court ruling the Gdeim Izik case, which sparked during the dismantlement by Moroccan security forces of a protest near Laayoune. A verdict is expected on November 25th. «The
The Prix Versailles has recognized a Marrakech hotel and restaurant in 2020. The winners are Oberoi, a hotel designed by Collier & Partners Architectes and Marrakech-based restaurant Ronsad, designed by Gil Dez. The two Morocco facilities are considered continental winners of the Prix Versailles 2020, which allows them to run for the world titles, organizers said. The continental winners, including Oberoi and Ronsad, were awarded based on «70 recent projects, each of them a
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