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Coverage dated November 27, 2021

Morocco halts all incoming flights because of virus variant

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RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco is suspending all incoming air travel from around the world starting Monday for two weeks because of the rapid spread of the new omicron variant of the virus. The Foreign Ministry announced the move Sunday, tweeting that the decision was taken to “preserve the achieveme…

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  1. Local News 8

    Morocco halts all incoming flights because of virus variant (opens Local News 8)

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    RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco is suspending all incoming air travel from around the world starting Monday for two weeks because of the rapid spread of the new omicron variant of the virus. The Foreign Ministry announced the move Sunday, tweeting that the decision was taken to “preserve the achieveme…

  2. France 24

    Morocco halts incoming passenger flights over Covid variant (opens France 24)

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    Morocco will halt incoming passenger flights for two weeks starting Monday night amid concern over the spread of a new, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant dubbed Omicron, a government committee said.

  3. Al Jazeera

    Morocco suspends all incoming flights over Omicron (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Government committee says decision taken because of quick spread of new variant ‘in Europe and Africa’.

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