Morocco imposes COVID restrictions on Chinese travellers

Moroccan authorities will impose a ban on people arriving from China, whatever their nationality, from January 3 to avert any new wave of coronavirus infections.

RABAT – Moroccan authorities are imposing curbs on travellers from China as COVID-19 cases in the country surge following its relaxation of "zero-COVID" rules.

Morocco will impose a ban on people arriving from China, whatever their nationality, from January 3 to avert any new wave of coronavirus infections, the foreign ministry said on Saturday.

China has rejected criticism of its COVID data and said it expects future mutations to be potentially more transmissible but less severe.