Covid-19 : Morocco suspends travel to and from Algeria and Egypt

Moroccan authorities decided Thursday evening to suspend flights to and from Egypt and Algeria. The announcement was published on the website of the National Airports Office (ONDA) indicating that this suspension would remain in effect «until 03/21/2021». The same source specifies that «passengers coming from these countries through another country» would also be concerned.

As part of the preventive measures against the spread of the novel coronavirus, Morocco has decided to suspend flights to and from twenty countries, ONDA recalls. These countries are Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Brazil, as well as the two aforementioned ones.

Preventive measures mainly target the spread of new variants of SARS-CoV-2, as 24 of its strains have been detected in Morocco.