70 people died from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours in Morocco, announces the Ministry of Health, bringing the number of deaths in the Kingdom to 5,985 since last March.
Morocco seems to be making vaccination against coronavirus compulsory. The statements made by the Minister of Health seem to confirm this.
Moulay Said Afif, president of the National Federation of Health (FNS), says that "the only solution to the coronavirus pandemic is to adopt the vaccine, which would put an end to the health emergency the world is living in today."
The National Health Insurance Agency (ANAM) and the majority union representative of private laboratories in Morocco do not agree on the price reduction of PCR tests.
The dental technician who, in 2017, caused the death of a 12-year-old child, was sentenced to 1 year in prison with a fine of 300,000 dirhams, to be paid to the victims’ family. The verdict provoked general outrage.
Casablanca-Settat, the region most bereaved in terms of deaths due to the coronavirus, is pulling out all the stops for the success of the vaccination campaign. The time has come to mobilize all energies.
Nearly 22,000 people live with HIV in Morocco without knowing it, or 22% of Moroccan people living with HIV, according to the Association for the Fight against AIDS (ALCS).
Water stress is real in Agadir, the leading exporting region for citrus fruits and early produce. Even though the Moroccan economy is largely dependent on the development of the agricultural sector, the current situation requires the deprivation of irrigation of the region’s farms by the dams, in order to meet the demand for drinking water of the population.
The "Clean Hands" operation led by the services of the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) has just pinpointed four other offenders of the provisions of the state of health emergency in the city of Casablanca. Thus, no less than 117 restaurants in the metropolis have been closed since the launch of this operation.
An agreement in principle has been reached between private laboratories and the National Health Insurance Agency (ANAM) to make the cost of Covid-19 screening tests (PCR) more accessible. The price will drop from 700 to 450 dirhams in the private sector and from 500 to 300 dirhams in public institutes.
The issues of abuse related to the management of Covid-19 cases by private clinics were the subject of a meeting of the permanent monitoring committee of the national convention bringing together the managing bodies. At the end of this meeting, ANAM imposed two sanctions against 3 clinics, including the reimbursement of the complainants.
Morocco is in the final preparations before the launch of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, scheduled to begin on December 4.