COVID-19 Spreads in Morocco’s Souss Region as Travelers Ignore Restrictions

Most of them are some citizens who went to visit families in mourning due to the coronavirus. This has increased the proliferation of family contamination hotspots in Agadir, Ida-Outanane, Taroudant and Inezgane Ait Melloul. The latter city, which has the highest number of infected people in the region, had its first case when a resident returned from the city of Er-Rich, where he had gone to attend the funeral of his brother, who died from COVID-19. "The man, a carrier of the virus, ended up infecting seven members of his family, and one of the infected women almost created a contamination hotspot in the packaging plant where she worked," reports le360.

Similarly, three sisters, infected after going to El Jadida to attend the funeral of their mother who died from the coronavirus, came back to infect others. An elderly man who was also infected with the virus during the funeral of one of his relatives has contaminated three members of his family. The same source reports the case of a beggar who entered clandestinely, accompanied by her young daughter, in Inezgane and who tested positive. She would be the source of "the contamination and death of a medical doctor and a nurse working at the provincial hospital, as well as three other people who had been in contact with her."

The examples are legion and show how often carelessness, non-compliance with barrier gestures and repeated violations of the state of health emergency constitute real dangers and have helped create many contamination hotspots in this region.