Dr. Azzedine Ibrahimi, director of the biotechnology laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, also a member of the scientific and technical committee, says that four vaccine batches will be delivered to Morocco in the very near future. This is reassuring for Moroccans about the smooth running of the vaccination campaign.
Morocco will receive, in the coming days, two million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine. This delivery will give a boost to the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, which is suffering from a shortage of the first vaccine doses.
Morocco, Brazil and Saudi Arabia will receive the next AstraZeneca deliveries late. This announcement was made by the Serum Institute of India (SII), the Indian manufacturer of the British vaccine.
While the controversy is raging around the use of the British vaccine Astrazeneca, Moroccan health officials are playing the card of reassurance. The national pharmacovigilance center says the country has recorded only a small number of cases of thrombosis after vaccination. However, any possibility of establishing a causal link is ruled out.
While the epidemiological indicators are stabilizing in Morocco, other symptoms sow doubt and even concern in people’s minds. These new signals confirm the presence of new variants in the kingdom.
Morocco is facing a shortage of the first doses of the Chinese and British vaccines Sinopharm and AstraZeneca. The kingdom is negotiating with China to supply them as soon as possible.
Morocco has ordered nearly one million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus. The details for the completion of this delivery, which will have to go through several stages, are in progress.
The success of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Morocco is hailed by "The Middle East Institute", an American think tank specializing in the Middle East. For the organization, Morocco "vaccinates 50% faster than Germany and most major European countries".
In Africa, the country that has vaccinated its population the most is Morocco, with a national vaccination campaign launched in January 2021 and which aims to reach 80% of the population by June. While Morocco has already vaccinated more than 4 million people, some African countries are just starting the campaign, and others are not even considering it yet.
Since the appearance of the first case of coronavirus on its territory, Morocco has opted for preventive measures, including confinement, the rapid acquisition of masks and respirators, and negotiations with several laboratories in order to vaccinate the majority of the population.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in several countries including Morocco , theses are piling up on the effectiveness of vaccines, especially on people infected. According to a study, a person cured of Covid-19 and then receiving a first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine is as well, or even better protected than someone who has never caught the disease but has received the two vaccine doses.
Morocco’s economic growth in 2021 is dependent on the successful rollout of the mass vaccination campaign against Covid-19, which should allow the country to reach herd immunity and lift the current restrictive measures. The expected economic recovery in the second half of the year could be delayed if this objective is not achieved.