Morocco Limits COVID-19 Testing to Vulnerable Groups Amid Strategy Shift

According to the data communicated by the supervisory ministry, only the elderly and people with chronic diseases will undergo the Sars-cov2 diagnostic test.

The ministry is thus following in the footsteps of European countries, whose population is subject to confinement and home treatment, in order to avoid the saturation of hospital facilities.

Infected people whose health has deteriorated and high-risk subjects are exempt from this new provision.

It should be recalled that Morocco has seen a significant increase in the number of cases of contamination and deaths, since the lifting of the state of health emergency. A total of 25,537 confirmed cases and 382 deaths were recorded on August 2.