"Following the public authorities' statement of Sunday July 26 concerning the ban on mouvement to or from eight cities in the Kingdom to strengthen health measures and stem the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19), several social networks have broadcast photos and videos of citizens on several axes of the national road network in a state of acute congestion as well as repeated scenes of road traffic injuries," a statement by the ministry said Tuesday.

In order to enlighten public opinion, the ministry collected and analyzed data on road traffic injury accidents recorded on the entire national road network during the full 24 hours of Sunday, 26 July, and found that 96 injury accidents were reported, resulting in 9 fatalities, 19 seriously wounded people and 146 minor injuries.

On Monday, July 27, 2020, there were 103 accidents, 6 killed, 7 seriously wounded and 141 slightly injured, the ministry added, noting that the above statistics do not differ significantly from those recorded during the same period in previous years.

Indeed, the daily averages for the month of July 2019 show 82 injury accidents, 7 killed, 12 seriously wounded and 127 slightly injured, noted the ministry according to which the daily averages for the month of July over the period 2015-2019 stood at 84 injury accidents, 8 killed, 18 seriously wounded and 132 slightly injured.

It also reported that the statistics for injury accidents and road traffic casualties in urban areas on these two days show "no significant abnormalities" compared to the data for the other days of the week.