Morocco Praised for Innovative COVID-19 Response, Including Locally-Made Ventilators

Many factors argue in favor of the encouragement and recognition received by Morocco in its fight against covid-19. Among others, there is the presentation, on May 8 in Casablanca, of a 100% Moroccan-made intelligent artificial respirator that should be delivered to the kingdom’s hospitals in the coming weeks". But before this announcement, the French magazine cites "the presentation of a smart mask for automatic remote detection of covid, or the creation of a digital platform for sharing experiences on the pandemic in Arabic".

The scientific and technological initiatives have multiplied so much in the context of this pandemic that "the European Union has recently saluted the efforts of Morocco in the management of the coronavirus crisis", says Slate, specifying that "eighty days after the appearance of the first case of covid-19 in Morocco, it records only a little more than 7,000 infected subjects and less than 200 deaths". Morocco was able to take the necessary measures very early on, based on the experience of the disease made by European countries, including its immediate neighbor, Spain, which today finds itself with "nearly 280,000 detected cases and more than 28,000 victims".

Moreover, the magazine emphasizes the country’s ability to produce "7 million sanitary masks per day and to carry out 10,000 tests per day". "But what makes Moroccan singularity, if not exemplarity in the Maghreb and throughout Africa, is the scale of the support measures put in place to limit the economic and social consequences of covid-19".

According to the site, the coming weeks will show the extent to which Moroccan health voluntarism will have made it possible to avoid a recession that promises to be severe for all countries. "Today, Morocco has every chance of emerging from this totally unprecedented crisis in a much less degraded social situation than its neighbors," the same source said.