The third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is confirmed in Morocco. The health authorities will provide this booster dose starting the first week of October to healthcare workers, people with chronic illnesses, and the elderly.
China will deliver a new batch of Sinopharm vaccine to Morocco this week. This will allow the kingdom to continue its vaccination campaign against the coronavirus, recently extended to the 12-17 age group.
Will the vaccine passport soon be mandatory for Moroccans? The question arises since the publication by the Ministry of Health of an animated film between two characters. The latter discuss the vaccine pass and suggest, in the eyes of many Moroccans, that it would soon be compulsory.
The establishments of the French school network in Morocco have decided, on the instructions of the Ministry of National Education, to postpone the start of the school year to Friday, September 10, 2021, in order to allow students aged 12-17 to receive their dose of Covid-19 vaccination .
New recommendations have been issued by the national technical and scientific vaccination committee for the updating of care protocols and the strengthening of preventive measures for pregnant and breastfeeding women and newborns.
Morocco is expected to receive a new batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tomorrow, Saturday, September 4. This new delivery will allow the kingdom to continue its vaccination campaign against the coronavirus, recently extended to the 12-17 age group.
Morocco will soon proceed with the manufacture and filling of anti-Covid-19 vaccines made in Morocco. The first doses of the precious product, the result of the collaboration between the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm, the origin of the vaccine of the same name, and its Moroccan counterpart Sothema, are announced for next December.
After several weeks of increasing Covid-19 infections and after reaching a peak in mid-August , Morocco is gradually beginning to see the number of cases decline. This is what the head of the Communicable Diseases Division at the Ministry of Health affirms.
Morocco received 650,400 doses of AstraZeneca on Wednesday, September 1st, as part of the Covax program. This will allow the kingdom to maintain and continue its vaccination campaign against the coronavirus normally.
For the past few days, Morocco has been hunting down fake PCR tests and fake health passes. Several operations have thus been carried out in different airports of the kingdom and have resulted in the arrest of several French and British tourists and the dismantling of several networks.
The General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM) has sent a letter to the Minister of Health, notifying him that the high cost of PCR tests hinders the realization of screening campaigns in companies.
The Head of Government, Saad Dine El Otmani , calls on parents to widely vaccinate their children, in order to protect students and limit the spread of the Covid-19 virus.