By John Ikani
Morocco on Thursday said it would end a ban on flights to the kingdom, in place since November 29, in an effort to limit the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
The Moroccan Prime Minister, Aziz Akhannouch, said that the ban would be lifted on February 7.
The North-African country banned all inbound international passenger flights and closed its sea borders in November due to concerns over the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
Morocco has had just over 15,000 Covid fatalities so far.
The decision to re-open the airspace comes a day after workers in the tourism industry held protests in several cities across Morocco to call for the reopening of the borders.
The reopening is a sigh of relief for the tourism sector which had been badly impacted by the repeated border closures since the coronavirus pandemic began in the North African kingdom.
Mr Akhannouch urged passengers to comply with Covid-19 guidelines and called on Moroccans to take their vaccine jabs.
