Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, the longest-serving Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in the world and a member of the Moroccan Jewish community, passed away in a Casablanca hospital, April 10, after testing positive for the coronavirus. According to Chabad.org, Eidelman «oversaw a dozen Chabad of Morocco Jewish schools and is mourned by tens of thousands of students he taught throughout the decades», for more than 60 years. The 84-year-old «opened and ran
As of Tuesday evening, Morocco recorded 125 new confirmed coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 1,888. The number of suspected cases that tested negative for the virus reached 8,034 cases, 669 of which underwent tests between Monday and Tuesday, said the Head of the Directorate of Epidemiology and the fight against infectious diseases at the Health Ministry, Mohamed Lyoubi, during a daily press briefing. The official also announced that there
Through a crowdfunding campaign, Ghanaian artist Reuben Odoi Yemoh is trying to help West and Central African migrants in Morocco. To him, this community is a vulnerable one as the language barrier makes it hard to access help.
About 20 Spanish teachers from 11 schools in the education section of the Spanish Embassy in Morocco decided to return to their home country at the start of the coronavirus crisis. According to El Español, around ten of them have been dismissed for «abandoning their posts», while the others are awaiting their official notice of dismissal. «They will be penalized and for three years they will not be able to return to work in Morocco», the same source
Foreign workers in Gulf countries are between the devil and the blue sea. In addition to the risk of getting infected with Covid-19, they could be forced to leave the country due to new government plans.
A Moroccan chartered plane has landed at the Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, to transport South Korean-made coronavirus test kits and disinfection equipment, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Tuesday. The plane was parked at the airport on April 14, the same source said, adding that it arrived early in the morning, bringing «31 South Koreans and the Moroccan spouse of one of them in an evacuation from the African nation». The plane returned home right after
Between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, Morocco recorded 75 new confirmed coronavirus cases, bringing to 1,838 the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country. As for the death toll, the Ministry said that in total 126 people died after contracting the virus in Morocco while 210 recovered. 7,771 suspected cases have been excluded after they tested negative for the virus, the same source added.
In a press release, the health authorities in Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra announced, Tuesday, that the four coronavirus cases recorded in the region have all recovered. The same source reported that the first case recovered on April 10 and the second on April 12. «On Tuesday, the two other cases will leave quarantine after their tests were negative. They will be transferred on board an ambulance to the province of Boujdour», it added. Local health authorities said that no case
Marlene and Dan are two American citizens who found themselves stranded in Morocco at a time when the country imposed strict travel restrictions to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. Alongside their three children, the couple is among the tourists and foreigners who struggled on their way out of the Kingdom.
Morocco registered 102 new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus (Covid-19), in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases registered in the country to 1,763. The country has also registered 8 new deaths, bringing the number of deaths to 126, as well as 26 recoveries, 203 in total, confirmed by laboratory tests. During the daily press briefing on the pandemic situation in Morocco, the chief of the directorate of epidemiology and the fight against infectious diseases at the
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