Moroccan Port Requires COVID-19 Tests for Sailors as Fishing Season Begins

More than 70 octopus fishing vessels have started their activities last Saturday. Other sailors will join the group as soon as they receive the results of the screening tests and they are negative, said Badr El Moussaoui, the president of the commune of El Marsa, and president of the Regional Association of Owners, Captains and Sailors of Fishing Boats. He explained that the closure of the port is a decision that had been announced before Eid, reports the MAP.

It has also been notified to sailors wishing to leave the province of Laâyoune to have negative Covid-19 controls in order to spend the Eid holiday, before resuming their activity. It is therefore the tests to which the sailors are subjected that has led to "a paralysis of activities in the port and the industrial zone," specifies the same source.