The Moroccan government Council, held Thursday in Rabat, has decided to extend the state of health emergency that was scheduled to expire Saturday, as part of efforts aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Council adopted the draft decree extending the state of health emergency throughout the national territory from Saturday, November 10 at 6 pm to Thursday, December 10 at 6 p.m.
The state of health emergency enable the government to make swift, necessary decisions to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The extension was decided as the current situation requires keeping the appropriate measures to stop the spread of COVID-19, while ensuring that the measures taken at the level of each region, prefecture or province, are adequate with the evolution of the epidemiological situation.
This is the eighth time that Morocco has extended the state of health emergency since the measure was first adopted on March 19.
