Fifteen people who visited Egypt in March have tested positive for the virus, bringing the number of Covid-19 infections in the city of Meknes to 22. According to the city’s mayor, the 15 people are part of a group of men and women who went on an organized trip between February 25 and March 10.
In Morocco, several blue-collar workers leave their house every day to work. Most of them cannot afford abandoning their jobs and small wages during this period, despite the risks that come with that.
In Morocco, several companies have decided to support health workers as the country is battling against the novel coronavirus. These companies offer free meals and accommodate doctors, nurses and hospital staff.
The Casablanca administrative court authorized, on Tuesday, a Libyan national who was stranded for a week at the Casablanca international airport to enter the Moroccan territory. The Libyan national arrived from Malta to take a new plane for Tunisia. However, the flight was cancelled after Morocco suspended sea and air travel to avoid the spread of coronavirus. The judge's decision ordered the Moroccan authorities to allow the 39-year-old to stay in the country, for these
Tunisian President Kais Saied held a phone call, Tuesday, with King Mohammed VI to discuss how Tunisia is dealing with the novel coronavirus outbreak, Tunisian newspaper Alchourouk reports. The two head of states held talks on the health situation in both Tunisia and Morocco and stressed the need of cooperating and benefiting from one another’s experiences during this crisis. According to the same source, the Tunisian president stressed the need of adopting a different approach when
A Moroccan-born Israeli is expected to be voted in, Wednesday, as the Knesset’s new speaker. Meir Cohen, from the Yesh Atid political party that was formed in 2012, will be replacing Yuli Edelstein, Jerusalem Post reports. Meir Cohen was born in Essaouira in 1964. At the age of seven, his family left Morocco to for Dimona, a city where he «earned a master’s degree in Jewish studies and pedagogy at Jerusalem’s Schechter Institute», the same source wrote. Cohen
Morocco has recorded 27 new confirmed coronavirus cases, one Covid-19-related death and a new recovery. Casablanca is home to the largest number of confirmed cases, 41 in total.
On Friday, Morocco declared a state of heath emergency to deal with the spread of coronavirus. The decsion is not the first of its kind as in the 18th and 19th centuries, the plague forced the Kingdom to impose a nationwide quarantine.
Last week, several Moroccans took to the streets to pray to God amid the outbreak after the country declared a state of health emergency, implementing a nationwide lockdown. To sociologists, the reasons behind these practices can be blamed on unmanaged fear and mysticism.
A Moroccan national, suspected of killing a 62-year-old man in Malta, was arrested in Morocco after he fled the archipelago, Times of Malta wrote on Monday. The 37-year-old suspect was arrested after the police discovered the body of the victim on March 17. The Moroccan was arrested in Casablanca two days after the victim’s body was found in a garbage bag in his apartment bathroom. The suspect is believed to «have been sharing the apartment with the victim, when the murder took
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