More than 300 cases of novel coronavirus have been detected at three Moroccan prisons after a campaign of testing of inmates and guards in the country's 73 jails, the prisons service said.

After more than 1,700 tests across the country, it said 303 infections were recorded at a jail in the southern town of Ouarzazate, 62 of them prison employees.

Ten others were found in the central city of Marrakesh and in Ksar Kebir in the north. Further tests were being carried out to confirm five possible cases at Tangiers prison.

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