Morocco Threatens to Close Businesses Violating COVID-19 Safety Rules

In a new joint press release published on Monday, June 22nd, the Ministries of the Interior and of Industry, Trade and Green and Digital Economy call on merchants, craftsmen and offshoring professionals to strictly and responsibly comply with the preventive and precautionary measures recommended by the government authorities to ensure healthy working conditions, guaranteeing the health and safety of employees and customers and limiting the spread of Covid-19.

The two departments announce that central and local joint commissions will carry out intensive control operations in the cities. The competent authorities will proceed, on the basis of the observations of these commissions, to the closure of any establishment or business that has not complied with the health safety rules, the same source specifies.

As for the control operations of companies, production units and shopping centers, they will focus on the seven main areas provided for by the protocol for managing the risk of Covid-19 contamination in the workplace, relating to the establishment of a prevention plan against the coronavirus, the organization of work, training and awareness-raising, specific sanitary measures, catering, the transportation of employees, and the care of symptomatic persons, adds the same source.

The two ministries call on professional representations and associations to intensify awareness-raising operations for economic operators on the need to comply with the adopted health prevention measures to fight the spread of the virus, the statement concludes.