After receiving the first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Morocco has urgently approved the technical file of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine. The first doses should be delivered on Wednesday, January 27, 2021.
Two nurses stationed at the Ibn Baja hospital in Taza were each sentenced to 12 months in prison. They were prosecuted for a series of thefts committed in the unit dedicated to Covid-19 patients.
It is difficult for Moroccan students to follow courses during this ongoing health crisis. The only alternative available to them for now is distance learning, with the consequence being depression.
In the long term, the coronavirus could become as benign as a cold or flu. This is what researchers reveal, estimating that with repeated reinfections, the immune system adapts and causes less and less severe forms.
The Royal Air Maroc Dreamliner, dispatched to India to transport the first doses of the AstraZeneca Covidshield vaccine, has landed at Casablanca airport. It carries on board the two million doses authorized by the Indian authorities to launch the vaccination campaign in Morocco.
The recovery of tourism activity in Morocco will have to wait. According to two public and private operators, the long-awaited restart for next summer could be extended until 2023. The discovery of a new variant of Covid-19 in Europe has worsened the health situation.
The promoters and managers of gyms, spas and hammams in Agadir have been severely impacted by the long closure of their establishments ordered by the competent authorities. The recent extensions of the measures decided to fight the spread of the coronavirus by the government and the prefectural committee for epidemiological monitoring and follow-up have dampened the hopes of resuming their activities.
The screening operation carried out in high schools and middle schools in Morocco, following the appearance of the new strain of the coronavirus, revealed a positivity rate of 2% compared to a normal rate of 6.5%. A genomic analysis is underway to determine the strain of the virus.
Moroccan hospitals operate with a ratio of 7.1 doctors per 10,000 inhabitants, compared to about twenty doctors (per 10,000 inhabitants), as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). In total, the kingdom needs nearly 100,000 doctors and nurses to cover its medical staff needs.
In Morocco, the health crisis related to the coronavirus has accelerated the banking transformation. Online payments have experienced a meteoric success in 2020.
In 2020, Morocco welcomed a total of 7.15 million air passengers, a 71.48% drop compared to 2019 when 25.07 million passengers were recorded. These figures were published by the National Airports Office (ONDA) .
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the year 2020 was prosperous for the Renault group in Morocco. On Tuesday, the group’s managing director, Marc Nassif, announced that the two factories produced a total of 277,474 vehicles, including 209,769 produced by the Tangier plant and 67,705 by the Renault Casablanca Somaca plant.