Focus on the predictive management of COVID-19 risk in educational institutions in Morocco

RACHIDI, Hafida.; DADI, Smahane.; MERIMI, Imane.; RACHIDI, Fatima.; ZAHIR, Hafida.; LATRACHE, Hassan.

The corona virus pandemic at the international and national levels constitutes a real problem for health, economy, trade and certainly education. In Morocco, general confinement, since March 20, 2020, is an obligation to limit the spread of this virus. The Ministry of National Education decided to close education and training institutions on March 16, 2020. It adopted, in parallel, several proactive and preventive measures to deal with this pandemic on several levels, including distance education. Certainly these measures taken in the field of education are highly important, but require reinforcement for a continuous improvement of the safety and health of learners and the professional body. Continuous prevention measures are proposed in this study, acting on legal, human resources and educational content aspects, as well as on the preventive aspect on which we offer simplified methods and tools for the effective management of COVID-19 risk. In particular, we propose a checklist, adapted to the school context, used to carry out periodic internal audits for regular control and monitoring of the health situation in the school institution and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions.