This amount was mainly used to purchase medical and hospital equipment (1,000 resuscitation beds, 550 respirators, 100,000 sampling kits, 100,000 test kits, radiology and imaging equipment ...), drugs (pharmaceuticals and medical consumables, reagents, medical gases ...) and to strengthen the operating resources of the ministry of Health (allowances to health care staff, disinfection and cleaning, fuel ...), said the ministry in a statement.

In order to ensure a better fight against the Covid-19, the operations of reinforcement of the medical system will continue and this, in accordance with the High Royal Orientations, underlined the same source.

A special account entitled "special Fund for the management of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19)" was created following the High Instructions of HM King Mohammed VI to "meet the costs of upgrading medical equipment", "support the national economy to cope with the shocks induced by this pandemic" and "preserve jobs and mitigate the social repercussions of the pandemic", the ministry recalled.