Royal Air Maroc said it will send 18 planes to repatriate stranded Moroccans from Lisbon, Dubai, and Istanbul ahead of a new travel ban imposed by Moroccan authorities, effective on December 23.
Thousands of Moroccans have been stranded abroad for almost three weeks hoping to return home after the emergence of the Omicron variant prompted authorities to impose a fresh round of travel restrictions.
Tickets for RAM scheduled flights are available at points of sale, a source from within the company told Hespress, with the last plane to fly on Dec 23.
It is unclear how long the border shutdown, initially imposed to ward off Omicron, will last.
The country detected yesterday its first case of the variant in a woman from Casablanca, currently, under supervision in a hospital, according to the Health Ministry.
Delta-related Covid-19 cases are on the decrease around the world, for the first time since the variant was discovered last April, as the new Omicron strain takes over.
According to the World Health Organization’s weekly report, Omicron had been reported in 77 countries and “probably” spread to most nations undetected “at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant.”
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