Morocco Tightens COVID Controls as Cases Surge in Casablanca

The increase in Covid-19 contamination cases is a concern for the Ministry of the Interior. In Casablanca, agents have reinvested the city’s arteries and neighborhoods. Their mission is to ensure strict compliance with the health measures enacted in order to avoid the spread of the coronavirus and its variants in the kingdom, to warn citizens about the seriousness of the current epidemiological situation, reports Al Massae.

Awareness campaigns have been organized in high-traffic areas. The target? The general population, certain shops and shopping centers in particular. Citizens have been asked to avoid organizing private parties (weddings) and to respect physical distancing in the markets reserved for the sale of sheep for Eid al-Adha.

The command of the royal gendarmerie is also playing its part. It has instructed officials to strengthen control at the entrances to certain cities and to deploy roadblocks on national roads and to carefully check travel authorizations. These measures are justified not only by the resurgence of cases of contamination, but also by the significant increase in road traffic due to the arrival of many Moroccans residing abroad (MREs).