First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco registers a volatility in the number of cases which rose on Saturday to 4729 of whom 3% are receiving medical care in intensive care units, head of Morocco’s counter pandemic department, Mohamed EL Youbi said. Total deaths slowed to 173 while recoveries jumped to 1256 as Moroccan medics adapt to the chloroquine-based treatment, which […]
The Moroccan parliament has adopted a decree allowing the government to resort to unlimited foreign borrowing in order to ensure enough international reserves to fuel the economy. Morocco’s trade balance has been chronically suffering from a trade deficit that has deepened in the first quarter this year due to falling exports as a consequence of […]
Morocco has adopted pro-active measures without dragging its feet adopting economically painful measures that helped curb the spread of the coronavirus and lower the mortality rate to 3.9%, one of the world lowest. The number of recoveries is on the rise with 1055 people leaving hospital by May 1 amid 4529 patients while the number […]
The number of households that received financial aid from the Special Fund for the Covid-19 management has reached 5.1 million, said Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit on Wednesday at a parliamentary hearing. Stipends have been distributed to 800,000 people affiliated to National social security fund (CNSS), 2.3 million households having RAMED health card (medical assistance program […]
Morocco’s tourism promotion office (ONMT) is planning to encourage domestic tourism to compensate for losses due to the global impact of the coronavirus on international tourist arrivals. Prospects for a return to normalcy in the tourism sector before 2021 are bleak, said l’Economiste daily citing the office. “Hopes are therefore pinned on domestic demand as […]
The Sahraouis held in inhuman conditions in the Poliairo-run camp with Algeria’s blessings are fleeing en masse to Mauritania over fears of the coronavirus outbreak, Mauritanian media reported. A convoy of 1,500 cars left the camps to northern Mauritanian localities of Tiris Zemmour and Adrar, Mauritanian media outlets reported. The media echoed concerns of the […]
Press Review April 25-26,2020
Since every cloud has a silver lining, the coronavirus pandemic at least has had a positive environmental impact since restrictive public health measures to stave off a worsening pandemic were put in place. The stay-at-home orders, the closing of schools, offices non-essential trades and some factories, the increase of tele-working, the induced limited road traffic […]
The Kingdom of Morocco in its fight against covid-19
In Senegal, the Office of Economic Foresight is working on the development of a Covid-19 severity index, betting on statistics to draw lessons from the global management of the crisis. Since its creation in 2018, the Office has already developed a number of indicators that are supposed to measure, among other things, a country’s level […]