The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 19,013 as of 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 19. Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health has recorded 2,552 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. This brings the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 99,816. Morocco also reported an additional 2,318 recoveries from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The total number of recovered COVID-19 patients now stands at 79,008, with a national recovery rate of 79.2%. Meanwhile, the health ministry recorded 40 more COVID-19 fatalities, bringing the death toll to 1,795. The mortality rate remains at 1.8%. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 19,013 as of 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 19. Morocco counts 274 patients with severe symptoms, including 39 under artificial respiration. Moroccan health authorities also excluded 21,322 suspected COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Approximately 2,266,356 suspected COVID-19 cases have tested negative for the virus since the pandemic broke out in Morocco on March 2. COVID-19’s geographic distribution throughout Morocco Health authorities in the Casablanca-Settat region confirmed 1,059 new COVID-19 cases and 13 deaths in the past 24 hours. The region has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Morocco. The Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region confirmed 312 new cases and three deaths. The Souss-Massa region confirmed 270 new cases and three additional fatalities. The Marrakech-Safi region confirmed 240 new cases and two deaths. The region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima registered 162 new cases and five deaths. The Draa-Tafilalet region recorded 160 new cases and three deaths. The region of Fez-Meknes confirmed 101 new infections and four fatalities. The Beni Mellal-Khenifra region reported 96 new cases and five deaths. The Oriental region recorded 62 new cases and two deaths. The region of Guelmim-Oued Noun recorded 50 new cases and zero fatalities. The region of Dakhla-Oued Eddahab recorded 22 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death. The Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region recorded 18 additional COVID-19 cases and no deaths.

The health ministry also confirmed 1,962 additional recoveries. Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health has recorded 2,488 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. This brings the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 94,504. Morocco also reported an additional 1,962 recoveries from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The total number of recovered COVID-19 patients now stands at 74,930, with a national recovery rate of 79.3%. Meanwhile, the health ministry recorded 28 more COVID-19 fatalities, bringing the death toll to 1,714. The mortality rate remains at 1.8%. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 17,860 as of 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 17. Morocco counts 260 patients with severe symptoms, including 44 under artificial respiration. Moroccan health authorities also excluded 20,215 suspected COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Approximately 2,224,010 suspected COVID-19 cases have tested negative for the virus since the pandemic broke out in Morocco on March 2. COVID-19’s geographic distribution throughout Morocco Health authorities in the Casablanca-Settat region confirmed 932 new COVID-19 cases and seven deaths in the past 24 hours. The region has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Morocco. The region of Marrakech-Safi recorded the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths in Morocco in the last 24 hours, with eight additional fatalities. The region also recorded 311 new COVID-19 cases. The Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region confirmed 289 new cases and one death. The Draa-Tafilalet region recorded 204 new cases and four deaths. The Souss-Massa region confirmed 354 new cases and zero additional fatalities. The region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima registered 117 new cases and one death. The Beni Mellal-Khenifra region reported 116 new cases and three deaths. The Oriental region recorded 57 new cases and one death. The region of Fez-Meknes confirmed 72 new infections and two fatalities. The region of Dakhla-Oued Eddahab recorded 14 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death. The region of Guelmim-Oued Noun recorded 14 new cases and zero fatalities. The Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region recorded eight additional COVID-19 cases and no deaths. In the first half of September alone, Morocco recorded its second-highest monthly COVID-19 case count. The trend suggests September will see record-breaking figures on Morocco’s epidemiological situation.

Nearly half of the fatalities confirmed in Morocco on Monday occurred in the Casablanca-Settat region. Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health has recorded 1,517 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. This brings the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 88,203. Morocco also reported an additional 1,442 recoveries from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The total number of recovered COVID-19 patients now stands at 68,970, with a national recovery rate of 78,2%. Meanwhile, the health ministry recorded 36 more COVID-19 fatalities, bringing the death toll to 1,614. The mortality rate remains at 1.8%. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 17,619 as of 6 p.m. on Monday, September 14. Morocco counts 275 patients with severe symptoms, including 59 under artificial respiration. Moroccan health authorities also excluded 20,177 suspected COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Approximately 2,163,560 suspect COVID-19 cases have tested negative for the virus since the pandemic broke out in Morocco on March 2. COVID-19’s geographical distribution throughout Morocco Health authorities in the Casablanca-Settat region confirmed 518 new cases in the past 24 hours. The region has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Morocco and accounted for 17 of today’s 36 fatalities. The Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region confirmed 292 new cases and one additional death. The region of Marrakech-Safi recorded 160 new cases as well as two fatalities. The Beni Mellal-Khenifra region reported 132 new cases and four additional deaths. The Souss-Massa region confirmed 132 new cases and two additional deaths. The region of Fez-Meknes confirmed 67 new infections and one fatality. The Draa-Tafilalet region recorded 61 additional cases, as well as three fatalities. The Oriental region recorded 58 additional cases and three deaths. The region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima registered 58 new cases and one death. The region of Dakhla-Oued Eddahab recorded 28 new COVID-19 cases and no deaths. The region of Guelmim-Oued Noun only recorded 11 new cases, and no deaths. The Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region recorded one fatality but no new COVID-19 cases. COVID-19’s impact on the start of the school year The recent surge in COVID-19 cases has coincided with the start of the new school year. Many students were prepared to return to in-person classes, but the spread of the pandemic has prompted the closure of schools in several cities, including Casablanca, Sidi Yahia El Gharb, and Kenitra. Following suit, the French mission highschool Descartes in the Moroccan capital Rabat decided to close its doors for the next 14 days to contain the spread of COVID-19 among its staff. The move came after several employees tested positive for COVID-19. The school announced in a statement on its website that it will hold a meeting today to determine the next steps for distance education. “All teams remain mobilized for the education and safety of your children,” the school’s statement concluded.

Morocco’s security chief says authorities were tracking the movement of the terror cell and waiting for the right time to prevent “bloodbath.” Rabat – Morocco has just avoided a tragedy, says the Head of the country’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation, Abdelhak El Khiame, in the wake of the last-minute dismantling of a terror cell on Thursday. El Khiame said that the plotted operation would have caused a blood bath had the now dismantled cell successfully carried it out. The terrorist cell’s members had reached an advanced phase of extremism, he explained. In a statement to the press, the BCIJ leader said his staff had to use warning shots due to the danger of the terrorists. “We knew that stopping these individuals would not be easy.” On Thursday, BCIJ personnel were deployed in several cities, including Tangier, Skhirat, Temara near Rabat and Tiflet to raid the terrorist suspects. During the operation, two of the suspects showed “violent resistance,” while one injured a BCIJ team member with a sharp tool, the BCIJ revealed on Thursday. Another suspect also tried to blow himself with a gas cylinder during the arrest. El Khiame said that the leader of the cell has a long criminal history. He also said that the suspects used knives,which made their arrest challenging. The top security official said that Moroccan security authorities were aware of the movements of the cell, and had long been tracking its members’ actions and moves. He said that the BCIJ personnel had enough experience to track down the defendants. Commenting on the competence of Morocco’s security services, El Khiame emphasized that authorities have a “high capacity” to report in a timely manner on the stages of progress in the planning of terror operations. Security services tracked the suspects via the internet using their ISIS member-monitoring tools. The BCIJ’s decision to act on Thursday to dismantle the cell was because the security services realized that the cell had reached an advanced state and was planning to implement its plans to turn Morocco into a “bloodbath.” The members of the cell were playing to pledge loyalty to the so-called Islamic State, El Khiam said. He warned that ISIS’s terrorist ideology did not end with the fall of the organization or its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria and Iraq. “The terrorist ideology still poses a security challenge for all countries, especially for Morocco, which is present in the Sahel and Sahara region.”

Morocco slipped one place from the 2019 report. Rabat – The Global Innovation Index ranked Morocco 75th in its newest report with a total of 28.97 points out of 100. Morocco slipped one place from the 2019 ranking, where it placed 74th. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in partnership with Cornell University and the European Institute of Business Administration released the report. The report takes into account 80 different indicators, including human capital and research, infrastructure, creativity index, and technology. In Africa, the ranking acknowledged a lack of science and technology activities, with limited science-industry linkages and low absorptive capacity firms. It points out that while some African economies rank in the top 75 in the list, citing for example Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisia, other economies on the same continent rank “much lower.” The report sees, however, improvement in research bases in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Mauritius (52nd) and South Africa (60th) lead in innovation indicators in sub-Saharan Africa, followed by Tunisia (65th) and Morocco (75th) in the top 80. “All economies in the lowest ranks of the continent are Sub-Saharan African economies, with Ethiopia (127th), the Niger (128th) and Guinea (130th) trailing.” The ranking shows Morocco fourth in Africa, and fifth in the Arab world, behind the UAE (34th), Tunisia (65th), Saudi Arabia (66th), Qatar (70th), and Kuwait (78th). The Global Innovation Index shows that Morocco is among countries seeking to boost economic development, diversification, and living standards. The WIPO ranking also highlights how the North African country started supporting the rise of venture capital industries to finance startups and create state investment vehicles. “Developing countries are also following suit: in the past two years alone, Jordan, Morocco, and Senegal have all launched state-owned funds to boost start-up financing. In these and other lower-income countries, investing in start-ups has also become a cornerstone of public innovation policies.” Following providing details about Morocco’s innovation profile, the report detailed the score Morocco received in each indicator. In the institutions criteria for innovation, Morocco received 60.8 points, with a ranking of 77. Morocco earned fewer points (25.9) in human capital and research, and ranked 81st. Infrastructure in the country received 39.2 points, with a ranking of 71, while knowledge and technology outputs received 21.9 points (60th). Creative outputs received 19.0 points in Morocco (75th), and business sophistication 18.4 points (107th). The innovation index gave Morocco a score of 43.2 in market sophistication with a ranking of 88.

In the last 24 hours, Morocco excluded 21,158 suspected COVID-19 cases. Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health has recorded 1,941 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in Morocco to 75,721. Morocco also reported an additional 1,143 recoveries from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The total number of recovered carriers now stands at 57,239. The country has a recovery rate of 75.6%. Meanwhile, the health ministry recorded 33 more COVID-19 fatalities, bringing the death toll to 1,427. The mortality rate stands at 1.9%. The recent deaths include eight in Casablanca-Settat, seven in Marrakech-Safi, five in Fez-Meknes, four in Draa-Tafilalet, three in each Rabat-Sale-Kenitra and Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, two in Beni Mellal-Khenifra, and one in the Oriental region. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 17,055 as of 6 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8. The ministry counts 240 patients with severe symptoms, including 51 under artificial respiration. Moroccan health authorities also excluded 21,158 suspected COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Approximately 2,039,669 suspected COVID-19 carriers have tested negative for the virus since the pandemic reached Morocco on March 2. COVID-19’s geographical dispatch across Morocco Health authorities in the Casablanca-Settat region confirmed 737 new cases. The region has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Morocco. The Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region confirmed 306 new cases. The Draa-Tafilalet region recorded 203. The Beni Mellal-Khenifra region confirmed 160 new cases. The Marrakech-Safi region recorded 121 new cases. The Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region registered 118 new cases. The Souss-Massa region recorded 95 new cases. The Oriental region recorded 75 additional cases. The region of Dakhla-Oued Eddahab recorded 69 new COVID-19 cases. The Fez-Meknes region confirmed 46 new infections. The region of Guelmim-Oued Noun recorded 11 new cases. Meanwhile, the region of Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra did not record any new COVID-19 cases.

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Production of Kodiaq vRS hot SUV to gradually cease, but Skoda confirms it will return with new engine as part of mid-life facelift Production of the Skoda Kodiaq vRS will gradually cease in the coming weeks as the model becomes the latest victim of tightening emissions regulations. Confirmed by the Czech brand in a statement, the sporting large SUV will no longer be offered with the 237bhp twin-turbo diesel engine currently used in the vRS. The statement also confirms there will be “certain adjustments in the engine product line of Skoda next year”. However, the news doesn’t mean the only high-riding vRS model in the Czech brand’s line-up is gone for good. The statement adds that an upgraded version of the Kodiaq vRS will be reintroduced when the car is given its mid-life revamp. It remains unclear if Skoda will take the opportunity to offer a petrol engine in the range flagship instead as the market gradually shifts away from diesel power. The large, seven-seat SUV sector still favours the fuel, but trends show a continuing decline. Despite the increasing focus on electrification throughout the Volkswagen Group and Skoda’s new Octavia featuring a plug-in vRS model, sales and marketing boss Alain Favey has told Autocar “there is no Kodiaq PHEV in the foreseeable future”. “It’s much too early for us to see any patterns with regards to consumer progression from ICE [internal combustion engines] to PHEV [plug-in hybrids] to BEV [battery-electric vehicles],” Favey continued. “The Citigo-e iV is already over, and we have only had the Superb plug-in hybrid since last year, so we don’t have any of those customers who would be buying a next car. But perhaps people might jump directly from Kodiaq to Enyaq without going through the transition of a plug-in hybrid.” The Enyaq, Skoda's recently revealed electric SUV, is the first MEB-based model to be built outside of Germany. It promises the interior space of the Kodiaq but with a smaller external footprint. Further details of Skoda’s revised 2021 Kodiaq are expected to emerge either later this year or early next year.

The city of Casablanca recorded 948 new cases and 12 deaths. Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health has reported 2,234 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the highest daily increase the country has seen. Morocco’s total confirmed cases stands at 72,394 as of September 6. Of this figure, 15,759 patients are currently receiving treatment, increasing by 857 since Saturday. The health ministry also recorded 1,345 new recoveries in 24 hours, bringing the total to 55,274. Morocco has a 76.35% recovery rate. Meanwhile, deaths increased by 32 on Sunday. Morocco’s COVID-19 death toll is 1,361 and the fatality rate is 1.88%. Since March 2, Moroccan laboratories have ruled out 1,997,659 potential cases of COVID-19. In the past 24 hours, 21,323 test results came back negative. The geographical distribution of Morocco’s COVID-19 cases Casablanca-Settat remains the most-infected region in the country, recording 948 new cases and 12 deaths in 24 hours. Eleven of these deaths occurred in the city of Casablanca, which also recorded 773 new cases. Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima reported 118 new cases and three deaths. Marrakech-Safi confirmed 228 new cases and five deaths. Fez-Meknes recorded 94 new cases and six deaths. Rabat-Sale-Kenitra confirmed 130 new cases but no new deaths. Draa-Tafilalet recorded 287 new cases and three deaths. The Oriental region recorded 13 new cases and no deaths. Beni-Mellal Khenifra reported 165 new cases and one death. Souss-Massa registered 109 new cases and two deaths. Dakhla-Oued Ed Dahab confirmed 87 new cases and no deaths. Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra reported 38 new cases and no deaths. Guelmim-Oued Noun registered 17 new cases and no deaths.

The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 14,830. Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health has recorded 1,750 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in Morocco to 68,605. Morocco also recorded an additional 1,260 recoveries from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The total number of recovered carriers now stands at 52,483. The country has a recovery rate of 76.5%. Meanwhile, the health ministry recorded 39 more fatalities related to COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 1,292. The recent deaths include 14 in the region of Casablanca-Settat, nine in Marrakech-Safi, five in Fez-Meknes, four in Draa-Tafilalet, three in Beni Mellal-Khenifra, two in Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, and one in each the Oriental region and Rabat-Sale-Kenitra. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 14,830 as of 6 p.m. on Friday, September 4. The ministry counts 180 patients with severe symptoms, including 41 under artificial respiration. Moroccan health authorities also excluded 21,052 suspected COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Approximately 1,955,321 suspected COVID-19 carriers have tested negative for the virus since the pandemic reached Morocco on March 2. COVID-19’s geographical dispatch across Morocco Health authorities in the Casablanca-Settat region confirmed 590 new cases. The region has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country. The Marrakech-Safi region recorded 203 new cases.. The Fez-Meknes region confirmed 130 new infections. The Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region registered 115 new cases. The Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region confirmed 210 new cases. The region of Dakhla-Oued Eddahab recorded 171 new COVID-19 cases. The Draa-Tafilalet region recorded 139. The Beni Mellal-Khenifra region confirmed 96 new cases. The Souss-Massa region confirmed 44 new COVID-19 cases. The Oriental region recorded 38 additional cases. The southern region of Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra recorded nine new cases. Meanwhile, the Guelmim-Oued Noun region recorded only five new cases. In addition to Morocco’s efforts in fighting the spread of COVID-19 by raising awareness and implementing preventive measures such as social distancing in public spaces, the North African country has oriented its scientific resources towards the production of PCR test kits. The Rabat-based Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation, and Research (MAScIR), has launched large scale production of 100% Moroccan PCR test kits. The Ministry of Health has ordered 100,000 units, a press release from MAScIR announced yesterday.

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