Morocco will lengthen its night curfew, starting two hours earlier at 9 pm from Tuesday, as it tightens restrictions to counter a surge of coronavirus infections.
The government says in a statement that the business and tourist hubs of Casablanca, Agadir and Marakech will be closed except to holders of the vaccine pass or those on necessary travel.
The move is expected to hurt the tourism business which pinned hopes on the summer season to attract national tourists after travel receipts dropped 70% in the first half this year.
Daily COVID-19 infections have oscillated between 4 000 and 9000 over the past week as the total number of cases people rose to 569 452 cases, including 9 885 deaths.
However, Morocco has outpaced other African peers in its vaccine push, administering 24 million doses of the AstraZeneca and Sinopharm vaccines.
Last week, the country started administering Johnson and Johnson doses after receiving a shipment of 300 000 shots.
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Jane Marczewski, aka Nightbirde won the Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell in an episode that aired after singing the original song of the title a few weeks ago – It’s Ok. She told the story of her life last year while facing cancer.
The 30-year-old singer who became an overnight sensation has been battling metastatic cancer.
She announced on Social Media on Monday her health has taken a turn for the worse, and the fight with cancer is demanding all her energy and attention.
“Sharing my heart with the world on AGT has been an honor and a dream come true. My point of view this summer has been astounding.
“What a miracle that the pain I’ve walked through can be reworked into beauty that makes people all over the world open their eyes wider.
“Since my audition, my health has taken a turn for the worse and the fight with cancer is demanding all my energy and attention. I am so sad to announce that I won’t be able to continue forward on this season of AGT.
“Life doesn’t always give breaks to those that deserve it—but we knew that already.
Thank you for all your support, it means the world to me. Stay with me, I’ll be better soon. I’m planning my future, not my legacy. Pretty beat up, but I’ve still got dreams.”
Marczewski from Ohio in the US, performed her original song It’s OK in an audition in June and left everyone emotional and when she explained what she had been through in the last years of her life.
When asked what she does for a living, Nightbirde told the judges that she has not been working for the last few years as she’s been dealing with cancer. Simon asked Nightbirde how she is now.
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“Last time I checked I had some cancer in my spine and in my liver.”
“It’s important to know that I’m so much more than the bad things that happen to me.” she confidently expressed.
“It’s important that everyone knows that I’m more than the bad thing that happens to me,” she said.
The Portfolio Committee on Minerals and Energy will on Tuesday receive legal opinion from Parliament’s legal services, about the accountability of some so-called Schedule 2 entities, including the Central Energy Fund and the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation.
The briefing emanates from the refusal by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy for the two entities to submit their audited financial statement to the portfolio committee on energy. It argued that they are Schedule 2 entities and account to the minister and not Parliament.
Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Minerals, Resources and Energy, Sahlulelo Luzipho says they had to seek legal opinion to get more clarity on the matter.
“The department through the Director-General had written to the Portfolio Committee to the effect that because they are Schedule 2 entities and therefore they are not supposed to be reporting to parliament especially the Portfolio Committee, hence we have requested the legal opinion. What is the status of such section two entities? To what extent are they accountable to the committee, especially the committee as the committee of parliament?”
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