The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has added Morocco and Nigeria to the list of countries at highest doping risk, AFP reported on Thursday. The country is part of category A, the one with the highest doping risk. The list is followed by two other categories, B and C, which is the lowest. The AIU said that despite Morocco’s significant efforts, «a number of national level issues have not been addressed». «The doping threat in Morocco remains acute and the AIU considers
A Moroccan national, who has been irregularly living in Italy, has allegedly pretended to have the novel coronavirus to avoid expulsion, local newspaper Corriere Romagna reports. Police in Forli, a city in Italy’s northern Emilia-Romagna region, accompanied, Wednesday, a Moroccan to the Brunelleschi repatriation center in Turin to proceed with his expulsion from the country. The 26-year-old, who arrived in Italy in 2016 on a work visa, stayed in the country after his permit expired. He
After announcing its first coronavirus case, Morocco’s health authorities said Thursday that a second national had tested positive for the virus. The patient is an 89-year-old woman who returned from Italy in February.
The 6th edition of the Crans Montana Forum, held annually in Dakhla, has been cancelled, organizers told MAP news agency on Wednesday. The event, previously scheduled for March, has been annulled over coronavirus fears, its founding president Jean Paul Carteron said in a press release. The same source indicated that the decision is based on the instructions of the Moroccan authorities. For the record, Morocco announced, Thursday, its second confirmed coronavirus case. The first one was
Slovenia announced, Wednesday, its first case of coronavirus, alleging that the patient «was infected in Morocco», Reuters wrote, quoting Slovenian Health Minister Ales Sabeder. In a news conference held, Wednesday, Sabeder said that the patient «had travelled home to Slovenia from Morocco through Italy». «It looks like this is an imported case, it seems that the person was infected in Morocco», Maja Socan from the National Institute of Public Health said
A second confirmed coronavirus case has been recorded in Morocco, the Health Ministry said in a communiqué issued on Thursday. The health authorities explained that this case has been confirmed by the national laboratory of the Institut Pasteur, Wednesday. The patient, who tested positive for the virus, is a Moroccan woman who was in Italy, the country that recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases outside Asia. The woman in question is currently being treated in an isolation
With the spread of the novel coronavirus, information, posts and videos about the situation in several countries, including Morocco, have showered social media. However, some of the content shared online can be far from the truth and deceiving.
Artisanal fishing is no longer a male-dominated job. In Belyounech, a group of Moroccan women has set up the country’s first artisanal fishing cooperative, American news agency Associated Press (AP) reports. «We live in the sea and if we separate from it, we will die like fish. The sea is my entire life and that of my children and the people of the village», Fatima Mekhnas, president of the Belyounech cooperative, told AP. The residents of Belyounech who previously worked in
Morocco has decided to install thermal-imaging cameras at its border with Ceuta because of coronavirus. According to El Faro de Ceuta, the device, which instantly indicates body temperature and helps control people entering the Moroccan territory, was installed on Tuesday, sources said. The local newspaper wrote, however, that «this method is not completely reliable» and that it is «rather a preventive tool». Installing this device is part of Morocco’s measures
The Lower House’s commission on social sectors is expected to hold an urgent meeting on Friday, March 6, to review Morocco’s action plan to combat the spread of coronavirus. The meeting will be attended by several parliamentary groups from different political parties, including Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), the National Rally of Independents (RNI), the Constitutional Union (UC), Istiqlal (Independence) party, the Popular Movement (MP), Socialist Union of Popular
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