Morocco Launches Nationwide Sanitation and Death Management Measures Amid COVID-19 Crisis

Sterilization of public places, investigation of deaths at home, management of remains in morgues. This is the mission assigned to the municipal health offices during this confinement period.

The Ministry of the Interior explains that it has taken into account the current situation and responded "to many requests submitted by the municipal health services, concerning the difficulty of providing citizens with the means of prevention and sterilization, as well as all the necessary hygiene and protection measures in order to avoid any risk of transmission or spread of the pandemic".

The ministry has thus instructed the walis and governors to call on the local authorities (regions, prefectures, provinces and municipalities) to provide highly protective suits for death cases, FFp2 masks and other gloves, boots and protective goggles to all officials of the municipal health offices.

Similarly, the walis and governors will formally prohibit the presidents of the municipality from acquiring or using any equipment other than that authorized by the Ministry of Health in the sterilization operations, in accordance with the protocols in force, in order to ensure the effectiveness of these operations.

Another mission entrusted to them is to mobilize all the means made available to the permanent commissions of each local authority for an integrated management of the vehicles, including those equipped with spraying channels for sterilizing products.