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Exporting companies based in Morocco are facing enormous challenges to juggle the coronavirus impact due to a rise in the cost of risk emanating from orders cancellation, trade barriers and low demand. In the first three months this year, most of which was coronavirus-free, exports dropped 18% compared to the same period last year, according […]
The rate of patients who overcome the coronavirus rose to 89.62% on Saturday as Morocco continues mass testing, free hospitalization and a chloroquine based treatment. Total confirmed cases rose to 8,224 including 7,364 recoveries and 208 deaths with the total number of tests rising to over 340,000 as the country bolstered its testing capacity. Minister […]
Moroccans of all walks of life are wondering whether the authorities will lift on June 10 the coronavirus lockdown rules as planned or extend the restrictions for another period as a precautionary measure although the pandemic has been brought under control. According to several local press reports, the ongoing public health emergency, which was imposed […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday the resumption of clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine, nine days after suspending them following the publication of a study in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. The suspension of Solidarity trials on May 25 following the publication of the study in The Lancet, which found that the use […]
King Mohammed VI has called on the Moroccan private sector to conduct massive testing to protect the employees and resume activity in a secure environment, as part of the participatory management of the Covid 19 pandemic. The Ministry of Health and the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM) said in a joint statement that this […]
Moroccan MPs will discuss on June 11 the government’s exit strategy from the ongoing covid-19 lockdown enforced in the country since March 20 to prevent the spread of the pandemic. The parliamentary debate comes as the authorities are preparing to lift the lockdown on June 10 after having extended the public health emergency twice. “The […]
Moroccan ministry of health has launched a massive Covid-19 testing campaign in all regions of Morocco, as part of the preparation for the lifting of the containment. The massive screening campaign to last until late July or early August in all regions of Morocco projects to conduct 1,790,000 screening tests and 125,000 early diagnosis tests. […]
The Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research (MAScIR), a Rabat-based research and development institution, has designed the first 100% Moroccan diagnostic kit for COVID-19 testing. The new product was tested and validated by the Royal Armed Forces, the Royal Gendarmerie as well as the Paris Pasteur Institute. With its 10-year experience in the […]
The Tunisian commission for the fight against covid-19 decided at a meeting Monday to re-open the country’s land, air, and sea borders on June 27 as the health crisis is coming under control. Tunisian returnees will be subject to a seven-day mandatory quarantine in a hotel at their own expense and an additional seven days […]
Despite an overall drop in exports up to April by 20%, Morocco’s exports of phosphates in particular maintained same level in the first quarter this year compared with the same period last year signaling the strategic importance of fertilizers to global food security. The state-owned OCP, one of the world’s biggest exporters of phosphates and […]