Morocco Joins African Union Emergency Meeting on Coronavirus Outbreak

The Minister of Health, Khalid Ait Taleb, represented Morocco at these proceedings, reports the MAP. He was at the head of a Moroccan delegation composed in particular of the permanent representative ambassador of the kingdom to the African Union and the UN-ECA, Mohamed Arrouchi, and the director of epidemiology and disease control at the Ministry of Health, Mohamed Youbi.

The participants in this emergency inter-ministerial meeting focused on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus epidemic that has been raging in China for several weeks. Their task will be to define action plans aimed at a prompt response from African countries to this virus. Not to mention the taking of urgent and operational measures.

Speaking on this occasion, the Minister of Health stated that Morocco is committed at the continental level, by contributing its technical platforms, its experience and the expertise of its human resources, under the aegis of the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).

For Khalid Ait Taleb, this global public health emergency requires a combination of the efforts of the countries of the African continent with more efficiency of the actions undertaken. He said that Morocco has put in place a system through the raising of the level of vigilance of the National Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Health from green to orange, the activation of the Central Post for the coordination of actions in the health sector with those of the Ministry of the Interior, the Royal Gendarmerie, the Military Health and other concerned departments.