COVID-19: Over 30,000 people arrested for violating state of health emergency in Morocco

While Moroccan authorities are making huge efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus that already infected 3,537 people and killed 151, some still do not take the situation seriously and continue to challenge the precautionary measures decreed in the country.

Actually, since the state of health emergency was decreed on March 20, the police brought before the prosecution 30,689 offenders.

Just during the last 24 hours, some 3,590 people have been arrested, of whom 2,036 have been placed in police custody.

The national police indicate that since March 20, they have arrested 57,003 people across the country.

The largest numbers of arrests were conducted in Casablanca (7,887) followed by Rabat (7,632), Kénitra (5,753), Marrakech (5,332), Oujda (5,079), Agadir (4,017), Salé (3,357) and Meknes (3,033).