Morocco Tightens COVID-19 Restrictions as Cases Rise, Enhances Checkpoints

The public authorities have reviewed their mode of action, reports the daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia. For the past two days, an operation to strengthen the control measures of the state of emergency has been launched in several cities, the same source specifies. Police checkpoints have been set up on the main arteries of Casablanca and Rabat. Now, no movement from neighborhood to neighborhood is possible.

This new action plan is the improved form of the one adopted on March 20 to meet the new requirements. It aims to avoid laxity in observing the confinement imposed in order to curb the spread of covid-19 in the kingdom. The country is less than a week away from entering the process of gradual deconfinement. It remains to be seen whether this will be effective in this rather worrying context.