{"id":312518,"date":"2022-05-27T11:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=312518"},"modified":"2022-05-31T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:49:39","slug":"morocco-eases-entry-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/morocco-eases-entry-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco eases entry restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Morocco has eased COVID-related <strong>entry protocols<\/strong>. Last week, the government announced that arrivals can enter by showing proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test. Prior to that, they had to present both.<\/p>\n<p>The measures were published on the website of the Ministry of Health of <strong>Morocco<\/strong> on May 18. As of right now, travelers can visit Morocco with either a negative PCR test result less than 72 hours old or a valid vaccine passport that is defined as having received at least three doses of an accepted vaccine or two doses with a delay in the administration of the second dose not exceeding four months<\/p>\n<p><strong>Travelers<\/strong> also have to complete an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sante.gov.ma\/Pages\/activites.aspx?activiteID=333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a> form, which must be printed and signed. Children under the age of 12 are exempt from all requirements, the Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco is a <strong>tourist destination<\/strong>, and the entry of foreigners represents a major source of revenue. The industry was severely impacted by the pandemic but has recovered since. The Moroccan government has taken steps, including financial support, to help the industry, and tourist revenues went up 80% in the first quarter this year compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The latest news published on the state news agency <em>Maghreb Arabe Presse<\/em> (<em>MAP<\/em>) reported 170 new <strong>COVID<\/strong> cases on Wednesday (25) in Morocco. In the country, 6.3 million people have taken the three doses of the vaccine, 23.3 million have received two doses, and 24.8 million have taken one dose. Morocco has recorded 1.1 million COVID cases since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-312515\">\u00a9AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers can now visit Morocco with either a vaccination passport or a negative COVID test. Prior to that, they had to present both. Local tourism has picked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":312515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3066],"tags":[27969,9552,12625,9558,31688,31691,12401,31689,31692,31690],"class_list":{"0":"post-312518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-covid-morocco","9":"tag-marrocos-en","10":"tag-marrocos-ar","11":"tag-morocco-en","12":"tag-morocco-entry","13":"tag-morocco-entry-protocols","14":"tag-morocco-tourism","15":"tag-morocco-travel-requirments","16":"tag-morocco-visa","17":"tag-pandemic-morocco"},"wps_subtitle":"Travelers can now visit Morocco with either a vaccination passport or a negative COVID test. Prior to that, they had to present both. Local tourism has picked up.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}