Morocco to Begin Gradual Easing of Lockdown on June 10, Health Official Says

Morocco will enter the process of gradual deconfinement on June 10. For Mohamed El Youbi, this is possible provided that confinement, physical distancing measures at the level of industrial units and other communities or gatherings of the population, as well as barrier measures, are respected.

"We can start the deconfinement plan which will certainly be progressive. This is how we imagined it and proposed it to the Minister of Health," declares to Finances news hebdo the Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control at the Ministry of Health.

"With deconfinement, certain measures must remain applied. There is a risk of a second wave that could be more terrible than the first wave recorded around mid-April and which was the highest," he warns, stressing that the end of the epidemic means that we record a minimum of cases that do not constitute a risk of spread: a margin of 20 or 30 cases would be something acceptable.

Moreover, Casablanca-Settat, the most affected region, remains a worrying case. "Most of the case hotspots, commonly called ’clusters’, are recorded at the level of industrial units in Casablanca. We continue to have daily cases, either from existing clusters that are still active, or from new clusters," he explains. For Mohamed El Youbi, all the indicators in this region are not in favor, for the moment, of a lifting of confinement.