According to the Moroccan prisons service, 303 covid-19 confirmed cases have been recorded in three southern town of Ouarzazate prisons out of the 73 prisons in the country with 62 of these persons being workers at the prison service. Ten others were confirmed in the central city of Marrakesh and in Ksar Kebir in the north.
This was discovered after there was a call for testing to be carried out in all prisons in the country and some 1,700 tests across the country.
However, the prison service is implementing all covid-19 preventive measures to control the situation even though close to 80,000 inmates have been affected.
