Morocco Stands by Chloroquine Use for COVID-19 Treatment Despite WHO Controversy

The WHO made a big blunder by believing the study published in the British journal The Lancet. Unsurprisingly, it acknowledged its mistake a few days later by inviting the use of chloroquine again in the treatment of Covid-19.

Speaking during a webinar on Sunday, Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb said that Morocco did not make a mistake in maintaining the therapeutic protocol based on chloroquine to treat coronavirus patients.

For the Minister of Health, his department has a pharmacovigilance report related to the use of chloroquine and which proves that the kingdom was right to have maintained its decision. According to him, the relevance of this choice has been demonstrated a few days later. Chloroquine "has a very positive effect in the treatment of Covid-19," he assured.

The minister also recalls that Morocco "has known chloroquine for a long time, through its use in internal medicine and for the treatment of malaria." He also argued that the side effects of chloroquine "did not pose a problem, as they are known and we had them perfectly under control".