Health Ministry to grant authorizations to private sector laboratories to conduct Covid-19 tests

Health Minister, Khalid Ait Taleb, stressed on Wednesday evening, in Marrakech, that his department will grant authorizations to private sector laboratories to conduct Covid-19 screening tests.

«The ministry will grant authorizations to private sector laboratories to carry out microbiological analyzis of Covid-19 on the condition that these laboratories comply with health and biological safety conditions and proceed to the systematic declaration of Covid-19 confirmed cases», he told reporters.

The declaration of Covid-19 confirmed cases by private laboratories will allow the competent authorities to ensure the medical follow-up of active cases as well as contact-tracing and thus protect public health, he explained.

Ait Taleb noted that granting authorizations to the private sector to conduct Covid-19 screening tests will ease the pressure on public laboratories where microbiological analyzis for Covid-19 are carried out.