Morocco plans airport Covid-19 testing amid Europe surge
Morocco plans airport Covid-19 testing amid Europe surge
Travellers with positive test results will now be returned at the cost of the airline that brought them into the country unless they have a permanentÌýresidency document.
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Morocco says it will deny access to any visitor arriving in its airports with a positive Covid result [Getty]
will conduct rapid tests to passengers arriving in its airports and ports, and will deny access to any visitor with a positive result, the government said on Saturday.
The measure, which strengthens an existing requirement of a negative PCR test 48 hours before departure, aims to protect the country amid a surge of cases in , the government said in a statement.
Travellers with positive test must be returned at the cost of the airline that brought them into the country, unless they have a permanent residency document, it said.
Passengers visiting Morocco should also have proof of . The country made the vaccine pass mandatory to access public places after it vaccinated more than 50% of its population.
Morocco has administered more coronavirus vaccine doses than any other African country, inoculating 24.3 million people out of a population of 36 million. It has also started administering .
Last Wednesday, the country ended a night curfew aimed at combating Covid-19 that it introduced in March 2020 after a fall in cases from the summer peak.
(Reuters)
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