In Casablanca, two university teachers passed away after several days of struggle against the COVID 19 virus.

After multiple cases of corona virus amongst primary school teachers, now the lethal virus finds its way to higher education teachers and this happened during the beginning of the new academic year.

Aawatif Hayar, President of University Hassan II Casablanca, expressed her sincere condolences on the loss of professors Mbarek El Abbassi, president of chemistry department at the faculty of sciences Ain Chok, and professor Abdelmajid Bahloul from chemistry department at the faculty of sciences Ben Msik.

It is worth mentioning that the Casablanca-Settat region remains most affected by this pandemic with 932 new cases in the last 24 hours: 728 in Casablanca, 54 in Mediouna, 36 in Nouacer, 32 in Settat, 29 in Mohammedia, 26 in Berchid, 15 in Eljadida, 7 in Benslimane, and 5 in Sidi Bennour. Covid 19 cases has totalled 28058 in this region only.