Spain Halts Export of Critical COVID-19 Medicines to Morocco

According to the daily El mundo, these medicines, already "purchased and paid for", are demanded by Morocco due to the health crisis. These are antibiotics and paracetamol. To counter the coronavirus pandemic that has already caused thousands of deaths, Spain has stopped its exports of medicines to certain countries, including the Middle East, Latin America, South Africa and Morocco.

If for the moment Morocco has not yet spoken out on this decision of the Iberian neighbor, the Spanish Agency for Medicines supports that these exports of generic medicines can "cause a shortage at the worst time". This is why companies must stick to domestic demand, it is explained.

A ministerial order has even been published for the attention of manufacturers and holders of marketing authorizations for medicines considered essential for the management of the health crisis caused by COVID-19.

In this order, published in the Official Gazette on March 24, the established obligations require industrialists to "guarantee the supply of health centers and services with the medicines listed in Annex I according to their needs, and whose supply may be required at a frequency of once a day".