Hundreds of tourists stranded in Moroccan lockdown

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Hundreds of tourists who were traveling in Morocco in motorhomes have found themselves stranded in a parking lot near a Tangier highway that authorities have turned into a makeshift quarantine center. | AP

Dransfield said the park has running water, communal showers and toilets but she fears contamination from using them. Morocco has identified 225 cases of COVID-19.

Like hundreds of tourists, Dransfield and her family drove more than 16 hours on Saturday from a camping site in southern Morocco to Spain’s Ceuta border when they were told by the British embassy that the border would open for them to pass. She arrived on Saturday night to find hundreds of vans queuing in line. “We were waiting with more than 650 other motor homes for three days without access to bathrooms and without news of what will happen to us.”Another British tourist, Andrew McKettrick, said people were panicking. He said most of the travelers were elderly, and there were also many children.

“As soon as we arrived at the queue after driving 16 hours, the ambassador told us to go back where we came from,” he said. Some tourists tried to leave the line to go south but were turned back by roadblocks as Morocco banned between-city travel in a bid to control the spread of the virus.The press service of the United Kingdom embassy in Morocco told the AP they “don’t have any details to share on the border issue,” when asked if plans are in place to open the Ceuta border soon.

 

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