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The Moroccan Royal Armed Forces (FAR) have completed the setting up of a first field hospital in Benslimane (near Casablanca) to support the country’s response to the Coronavirus, which has so far killed 40 people in the country, infected 676 while 29 others recovered. According to the local Medi1 TV station, the field hospital was […]
African finance ministers have requested the support of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Union for bilateral, multilateral and commercial debt relief amid the coronavirus crisis. The request was germinated from the second virtual meeting on Tuesday, hosted by Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, and […]
African countries have so far recorded 6555 confirmed coronavirus cases and 244 deaths, according to the covid-19-africa.sen.ovh website. According to the latest tally, the breakdown remains fluid as many countries across the continent imposed a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic. According to the Center for Disease […]
The lockdown decided on March 20 by the Moroccan government to prevent the spread of the coronvirus pandemic has led to a sharp fall in Morocco’s motorway traffic. Travel by car on the country’s highways has dropped by 78 pc in one week (March 25-30) and plummeted by 90 pc during the weekend compared with […]
The UNFPA has launched prevention and hygiene kits to support the Moroccan government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic, which has so far killed 37 people in the country and infected 654, while 26 others recovered. To protect the most vulnerable people to several or fatal covid-19 infection in rural and urban areas, UN population agency […]
Ethiopia has postponed its parliamentary elections scheduled for August due to the coronavirus outbreak, the electoral commission said on Tuesday. “Due to the pandemic we were forced to suspend our activities,” said an Amharic-language statement from the National Electoral Commission. Ethiopia has as of April 1, confirmed 29 coronavirus cases. Infections have so […]
Since schools are closed in most African countries and remote teaching is not provided by all schools, many students have registered on online programs like the Khan Academy to continue learning from home. Most of these students are those who are in exam classes. Science, mathematics, languages, chemistry, physics…all subjects are available. Khan Academy is […]
With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, many inhabitants of large African cities choose to flee and go back to their home villages. A movement of this kind has never been witnessed in Africa in peacetime. For several days now, hundreds of Malagasy people have been leaving the capital, Antananarivo, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, […]
A Chinese team of medical experts with experience in fighting covid-19 held lately a video-conference with their Moroccan peers on coronavirus pandemic control, prevention and treatment. During the teleconference meeting, organized by the Chinese Embassy in Rabat, medical and epidemiological experts from Guizhou (Southwest China) answered questions from their Moroccan peers and shared their experience […]
the upward curve of the Covid-19 pandemic as it confirmed Saturday 57 new cases and by Sunday noon 48 more infected persons. With the new tallies announced by the Ministry of Health Saturday evening and Sunday noon, the total number of infected patients surges to 450, including 26 fatalities. Meanwhile, the number of people who […]