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A passenger of a flight from Beijing listens to indications from a Civil Guard after landing at the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport in Barajas, on the outskirts of Madrid, on December 31, 2022. - The first flight from China after the reinstatement by Spain of health controls on passengers from that country, in the midst of an explosion of covid cases, arrived in Madrid today evening. The passengers of the Air China CA 907 flight had to undergo temperature controls, present a negative covid test or prove that they were immunized with one of the vaccines approved in Spain upon arrival at Barajas, causing a scene not seen in months at the Madrid airport. (Photo by Pierre-Philippe Marcou / AFP)
Morocco said Saturday it will ban entry to all travellers from China, where cases of Covid-19 have exploded.
Other nations, including France, Britain and Morocco's cross-strait neighbour Spain, have said they will require negative Covid tests for all travellers from mainland China.
But the Moroccan foreign ministry said in a statement that authorities in the North African country "decided to forbid access to territory of the Kingdom of Morocco for all travellers, whatever their nationality, coming from the People's Republic of China."
The ban will take effect on January 3 and last until further notice, "in order to avoid a new wave of contaminations in Morocco and all its consequences," the ministry said.
China said in December that it would end mandatory quarantine for people arriving in the country and that it had abandoned strict measures to contain the virus.
