After a few days of pause, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, which was suffering from a lack of vaccines, will be able to restart. Several million vaccines are expected and the health authorities have started to collect the availability of those who have not yet received the first dose of the vaccine.
Faced with the new cases of contamination detected in the last two weeks, the Moroccan government has strengthened the restrictive measures during the holy month of Ramadan. This is the ban on night travel nationwide from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., except for exceptional cases, with the maintenance of the various preventive measures announced previously.
In Ouarzazate, a new strain of the coronavirus has just appeared. But so far, Azzedine Ibrahimi, director of the Biotechnology Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, remains confident pending the determination of its precise characteristic.
Moroccans are starting their 2nd Ramadan since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in a few days. With the new British variant detected in seven regions of the country, the authorities are likely to tighten preventive measures to limit the spread of this variant in the other regions.
Another Moroccan actor caught in flagrant violation of the state of health emergency. It is the Franco-Moroccan actor Saïd Taghmaoui, who had to pay a fine of 300 dirhams as a penalty.
Morocco is gearing up for the organization of the Marhaba Operation 2021, after the cancellation of last year’s edition for health reasons. The authorities would opt for the passage of Moroccans living abroad by sea.
Just like last year, Moroccans will not be able to perform the collective "Tarawih" prayers in mosques during the month of Ramadan. Morocco is facing a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in recent days.
To deal with the spread of Covid-19 cases over the past two weeks, the government is considering a strict night-time confinement during the month of Ramadan by decreeing a health curfew from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Despite the precautionary measures taken by the Moroccan authorities, the SARS-CoV2 genomic surveillance system has detected the circulation of the British variant and its spread in 7 regions of Morocco. A scenario that makes a new lockdown of the population increasingly inevitable.
Several studies have drawn attention to the explosion of domestic violence during the lockdown. The latest is that of the Chaml network for family mediation, which indicated that 44% of women at home have suffered domestic violence.
As Ramadan approaches, Morocco is moving towards a partial lockdown to avoid a third wave of the Covid-19 epidemic. A curfew will thus be imposed throughout the month of fasting.
Contrary to the rumors circulating on social networks, the regional health department of Ouarzazate has assured that no new variant of Covid-19 has been detected in the city.