An employee of a Moroccan startup company pilots a drone equipped with disinfectant liquid in a street of Harhoura near the capital Rabat to be used during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis. — AFP
RABAT: Morocco has rapidly expanded its fleet of drones as it battles the coronavirus pandemic, deploying them for aerial surveillance, public service announcements and sanitisation.
"This is a real craze. In just weeks, demand has tripled in Morocco and other countries in the region," said Yassine Qamous, chief of Droneway Maroc, African distributor for leading Chinese drone company DJI.
