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AP PHOTOS: Pandemic empties blue-hued Moroccan tourist town

by Mosa'Ab Elshamy
| January 5, 2021 12:03 AM

CHEFCHAOUEN, Morocco (AP) — When COVID-19 hit Morocco, the mountainous town of Chefchaouen was one of the few that registered no cases. The picturesque town, its facades painted in distinctive hues of blue, shut its small population off from the world, and kept the virus out for months.

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