Morocco Outperforms France in COVID-19 Management, Global Study Finds

The institute based its study on six indicators: the number of confirmed cases, the number of confirmed deaths, the number of confirmed cases per million people, the number of confirmed deaths per million people, the number of tests per thousand people, and the proportion of tests for confirmed cases. On this basis, a score is given to each country, between 0, the floor, and 100, the best score, which no country has managed to achieve, the study notes, nevertheless ranking New Zealand (94.4 points), Vietnam (90.8) and Taiwan (86.4) in the global top 3.

Morocco has a score of 37.1 and is thus in 68th place, far ahead of France, ranked 73rd, with 34.9, and Spain, 31.2, relegating it to 78th place. Tunisia, with its 66.7, ranks 21st, comfortably outpacing Denmark (62.9 - 23rd place). Algeria is not part of this ranking.

The study explains this result by the fact that small countries (with a population of less than 10 million people) have been more effective for most of 2020. Countries such as the United States (17.3 - 94th position) or Brazil (4.3 - 98th position) have managed the crisis very poorly, the study indicates, thus refuting the prejudice that the most economically developed countries have had better management of the health crisis.

To date, the total number of infections in Morocco is 469,990 cases, since the first case reported in March last year. 447,866 people have fully recovered, a recovery rate of 95.3%, and 8,246 deaths have been recorded, a fatality rate of 1.8%.