After announcing its first coronavirus case, Morocco’s health authorities said Thursday that a second national had tested positive for the virus. The patient is an 89-year-old woman who returned from Italy in February.
The 6th edition of the Crans Montana Forum, held annually in Dakhla, has been cancelled, organizers told MAP news agency on Wednesday. The event, previously scheduled for March, has been annulled over coronavirus fears, its founding president Jean Paul Carteron said in a press release. The same source indicated that the decision is based on the instructions of the Moroccan authorities. For the record, Morocco announced, Thursday, its second confirmed coronavirus case. The first one was
Slovenia announced, Wednesday, its first case of coronavirus, alleging that the patient «was infected in Morocco», Reuters wrote, quoting Slovenian Health Minister Ales Sabeder. In a news conference held, Wednesday, Sabeder said that the patient «had travelled home to Slovenia from Morocco through Italy». «It looks like this is an imported case, it seems that the person was infected in Morocco», Maja Socan from the National Institute of Public Health said
A second confirmed coronavirus case has been recorded in Morocco, the Health Ministry said in a communiqué issued on Thursday. The health authorities explained that this case has been confirmed by the national laboratory of the Institut Pasteur, Wednesday. The patient, who tested positive for the virus, is a Moroccan woman who was in Italy, the country that recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases outside Asia. The woman in question is currently being treated in an isolation
With the spread of the novel coronavirus, information, posts and videos about the situation in several countries, including Morocco, have showered social media. However, some of the content shared online can be far from the truth and deceiving.
Artisanal fishing is no longer a male-dominated job. In Belyounech, a group of Moroccan women has set up the country’s first artisanal fishing cooperative, American news agency Associated Press (AP) reports. «We live in the sea and if we separate from it, we will die like fish. The sea is my entire life and that of my children and the people of the village», Fatima Mekhnas, president of the Belyounech cooperative, told AP. The residents of Belyounech who previously worked in
Morocco has decided to install thermal-imaging cameras at its border with Ceuta because of coronavirus. According to El Faro de Ceuta, the device, which instantly indicates body temperature and helps control people entering the Moroccan territory, was installed on Tuesday, sources said. The local newspaper wrote, however, that «this method is not completely reliable» and that it is «rather a preventive tool». Installing this device is part of Morocco’s measures
The Lower House’s commission on social sectors is expected to hold an urgent meeting on Friday, March 6, to review Morocco’s action plan to combat the spread of coronavirus. The meeting will be attended by several parliamentary groups from different political parties, including Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), the National Rally of Independents (RNI), the Constitutional Union (UC), Istiqlal (Independence) party, the Popular Movement (MP), Socialist Union of Popular
A British truck driver was arrested, Tuesday, in Morocco for trying to smuggle 100,000 medical masks out of the country, French-language newspaper Le360 reported, quoting well-informed sources at the Port of Tanger-Med. The driver, who was planning to bring the masks to the UK and sell them for 350 dirhams each amid coronavirus spread, was arrested by customs officers and put in police custody, the same source added. According to the same source, the masks carried by the truck worth MAD30
The US State Department has approved a $239 million sale of M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicles to Morocco. The deal includes machine guns and smoke grenade rounds.
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