Morocco announces this Sunday 698 new cases of contamination with Covid-19. This is the highest daily balance in the country since the beginning of March.
These latter cases bring the total balance to 14,132 officially listed since the announcement of the first in Morocco in early March. 234 people have died and 9,410 have recovered, according to the Ministry of Health, whose data are taken up by Johns Hopkins University, which centralizes the number of cases and deaths in the world and which refers in the matter.
Most are due to the appearance of a source of contamination in a fish canning factory in Safi (south of the country), a port city with an industrial vocation. On the night of Saturday to Sunday, the city was placed in quarantine and its 300,000 inhabitants subjected to total containment, local authorities announced this Sunday.
States of emergency, wearing a mask and closed borders
The Moroccan channel 2M explains that the authorities there consider the situation "very serious". Entrances and exits to the city are closed. Shops must close at 6 p.m., cafes and restaurants at 8 p.m. The beaches are completely inaccessible.
The kingdom of 35 million inhabitants accelerated its deconfinement on June 25 with the reopening of cafes, restaurants, hotels and gyms as well as the resumption of domestic tourism and interurban travel. The restriction measures, in effect since mid-March to fight the pandemic of new coronavirus, have already been relaxed in two stages.
The state of health emergency was extended until July 10, the wearing of the mask remains compulsory and the borders always closed "until further notice". Half a dozen cities remain subject to restrictions due to the appearance of epidemiological outbreaks "in the workplace", in particular in strawberry farms in the west of the country.