The Directorate of Medicines and Pharmacy at the Moroccan Ministry of Health has just received all the documents concerning the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine against Covid-19 and the stages of the clinical trials carried out. From now on, the experts’ work begins to validate the data, a necessary step for the registration of the vaccine in Morocco and the authorization of its marketing.
Freight companies transporting goods to China are concerned about a sharp increase in container maritime freight rates to Morocco. This situation would be due to the strengthening by the Chinese authorities of measures to control the Covid-19 pandemic.
A few days before the reception of the first doses of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine, the Director of Medicines, Bouchra Madah, reassures about the choices made by the Kingdom. The three criteria of vaccine quality, efficacy and safety of use have been met, in accordance with international standards for vaccine development.
Doubts persist about the Chinese vaccine developed by Sinopharm. In this regard, a group of international researchers of Moroccan origin, experts in the fields of vaccine development, immunology, epidemiology, virology among others, are seizing and questioning the minister on the future vaccination campaign.
The Sino-Moroccan alliance does not seem to please the Algerian neighbor. The local press is firing on all cylinders at the regime, blaming it for its inaction in a "hyper-strategic" file for the country’s future.
An attempted fraud involving antique works was orchestrated in the name of the National Foundation of Museums (FNM) and its president Mehdi Qotbi, without success. At the maneuver, a Chinese, a Canadian and a Senegalese.
A few days before the launch of the vaccination campaign, a delegation of Chinese scientific experts recently traveled to Morocco, for a visit of the facilities set up for the manufacture of the Covid-19 vaccine .
The conditions are being put in place for the effective start of the vaccination campaign scheduled for December. The Chinese laboratory Sinopharm has just delivered to Morocco part of the doses of the Covid-19 vaccine that will be administered to Moroccans.
Morocco stands out on the continent by producing its own vaccine against the new coronavirus, in collaboration with the Chinese pharmaceutical group Sinopharm. The kingdom would also have acquired 20 million doses of the Sputnik vaccine from Russia.
While the academic year has resumed for a few weeks, some 500 Moroccan students in China are still stranded in the country. They have been waiting since September for the issuance of official documents from the Chinese consulate.
The first country to vaccinate its citizens, Morocco could receive its first batches of vaccines as early as next month, in two or three weeks.
The anti-Covid vaccine from the Chinese pharmaceutical group Sinopharm, chosen by Morocco, is about to be completed thanks to the results of clinical trials.