Moroccan Political Leader Shares COVID-19 Battle Experience

In a video posted online on Thursday by Hespress, Abdellatif Ouahbi said he had taken all precautions "not to be infected with Covid-19 and could not say how it happened." According to him, being infected with Covid-19 is a rather trying experience. "At one point, I lost my sense of smell and taste and I felt feverish, tired and had diarrhea."

In an effort to protect his family from contamination, he isolated himself, but unfortunately his wife was infected. Yet he had been notified at the center where he was declared positive that his situation was not so critical. Even after undergoing medical treatment and observing a quarantine, he admits to still feeling fatigue and breathing difficulties.

As for the relations he had with the late Mohammed El Ouafa, the PAM secretary general recalls that the Istiqlal leader and former minister and ambassador was the first person to contact him when he was ill with Covid-19. "He told me that he too was infected with the virus and we remained in contact until his disappearance." He says he has a "bad memory" of Covid-19 which took away a great friend," reports Hespress.

He will end his intervention with an appeal to Moroccans to take seriously the observance of social distancing measures and the proper wearing of masks. "They must take the disease very seriously," because one can easily lose one’s life. "It’s like El Ouafa who told me a few hours before his death that he was in good health and wondered why he had been transferred to the intensive care unit, before dying of a heart attack due to the new Coronavirus (Covid-19)," he confides.