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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided Moroccan CIH Bank with a €60 million funding destined to support SMEs affected by the global health crisis generated by Covid-19 pandemic. The two financial institutions signed on Wednesday an agreement to support Moroccan companies to stimulate the economic recovery from the impact of the pandemic. The EIB […]
Morocco received, this Sunday, May 23, more than 2 million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. Two RAM Dreamliner, carrying this new batch, landed in the early afternoon at Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca, local media reports. This shipment follows the 2 million doses of Sinopharm anti-covid vaccine received on Wednesday, May 19, as China […]
Since the COVID-19 epidemiological situation in Morocco is gradually improving as evidenced by a drop in the number of new cases, deaths, cases in intensive care, as well as a drop in the virus reproduction rate, the government has decided to cut the duration of the night curfew nationwide. The curfew that ran from 8 […]
Morocco’s tourism sector still reels under the impact of the pandemic with a drop in arrivals to 430,000 tourists in the first quarter of 2021, down 78% from last year, and plummeting revenue to 5.3 billion dirhams, Morocco’s tourism minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui said. The impact of the global health crisis on tourism in Morocco […]
Morocco received, during the night from Saturday to Sunday, a new batch of 650,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, as part of the WHO Covax program, news outlet Le360 reported. This second batch of 650,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines brings up the total doses Morocco received so far under the Covax program to 950,000 doses. […]
Hundreds of Tunisians staged Sunday protests in several cities of the North African country to boycott the new general lockdown measures in place to curb contaminations of the COVID-19 virus. The government’s decision of nation-wide night curfew and general lockdown for one week, starting May 9 and covering Eid al-Fitr came into effect Sunday […]
Morocco is expecting 2 million doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine after it opened vaccination to people aged +50 as part of a sustained vaccination campaign to reach collective immunity. The new vaccine shipment will bring total Sinopharm jabs delivered to Morocco to 4.5 million. The new arrival is also part of a Chinese vow to […]
The Moroccan government Council, held in Rabat this Thursday May 6, has decided to extend the state of health emergency, that was scheduled to expire on May 10, to June 10, 2021. The Council adopted the draft decree extending the state of health emergency throughout the national territory from Monday, May 10 at 6 p.m. […]
Moroccan Health ministry said on Monday that two cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19 have been found in the country. The first case is an inbound traveller coming from overseas, while the second is one of his close contacts. To prevent the spread of the highly transmissible Indian strain, the authorities have traced all […]
The Moroccan government has decided to ban the Labor Day rallies traditionally held on May 1st due to the ongoing restrictions imposed in the country to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The state of public health emergency has been extended in Morocco on April 10 for another month. Furthermore, the North African […]