Marruecos cierra los accesos a Casablanca e impone el toque de queda por la COVID-19

The Government of Morocco will close all access to Casablanca, the country's most populated city and economic capital, for fourteen days after the exponential increase in the number of cases of the coronavirus, which has reached 934 in the city and surroundings in just 24 hours. 

In a statement, the executive detailed the restrictions that will be taken in the city over the next fourteen days, which will also include a night curfew between 10pm and 5am.

Other measures, such as the closure of all schools from primary school to university during the week when classes begin, are also part of this limited new confinement, with all levels opting for distance learning. 

In addition, the opening hours of shops, cafés and restaurants, as well as the local markets, are limited. 

These measures have been taken after Casablanca recorded a record number of infections in the past 24 hours, with 934 cases and 12 deaths, on a day when infections throughout the country reached 2,234 cases, the highest number recorded since the beginning of the disease in the Maghreb. 

The pandemic progressed very slowly in the first months, thanks to the strict confinement decreed by the authorities and the closure of the borders since March 12. However, in August, with the first measures to reduce the spread of the disease and the resumption of travel and various activities, contagion has soared to over 1,000 new cases almost every day. 

King Mohammed VI warned in his last address on August 20 that the country could return to house arrest due to "those who are behaving in an unacceptably lax and careless way".