Morocco Denies Claims of Coronavirus Cures Using Chloroquine

It all started with the publication of a Mauritanian website, widely relayed on social networks, about five cases of coronavirus patients’ recovery. According to the French daily, the online Mauritanian site actually confused two independent pieces of information: the total number of officially cured patients in Morocco (five at the time of publication) and the subsequent announcement that Rabat would acquire chloroquine stocks.

Continuing its explanations, the French daily recalls on the one hand that the health balance sheet of the country was five deaths and six cured people (and not five cured) on March 24, the date of publication of the article, which is prior to the purchase of the chloroquine stock in the kingdom.

On the other hand, based on the announcement on March 24 of the "introduction of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine - two antimalarials - in the therapeutic management of confirmed COVID-19 cases", mentioned in a circular, the daily confirms that the six patients were not cured thanks to chloroquine. Because, it is specified, this antimalarial had not yet been introduced in the country at the time of the recovery of the cases mentioned.