Morocco announced on Saturday that it would prohibit admission to all travellers coming from China, which is experiencing an outbreak of the Covid-19 virus.
Other countries, such as France, Britain, and Spain, which borders Morocco on the other side of the Strait of Gibraltar, have announced that they will need all travellers from mainland China to have negative Covid tests.
However, the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying that Moroccan authorities "decided to ban admission to the territory of the Kingdom of Morocco for all travellers, regardless of their nationality, coming from the People's Republic of China."
According to the statement made by the ministry, the prohibition will go into force on January 3 and continue until further notice "in order to avoid a new wave of contaminations in Morocco and all its implications."
In December, China announced that it would no longer require persons entering the country to undergo obligatory quarantine and that it had abandoned other stringent measures that had been taken to contain the virus.
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