Morocco will receive its first batch of Russian Sputnik V vaccines this month and in April, said Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb . These new doses should allow it to continue the vaccination campaign launched in January.
Morocco , "an underdeveloped country", "is vaccinating twice as fast as France," said with astonishment the French doctor, Dr. Laurent Alexandre, during a television appearance.
In order to accelerate the national vaccination campaign against the coronavirus, the National Technical and Scientific Advisory Vaccination Committee has opted for the use of two other vaccines. These are the Russian Sputnik V and the American Johnson-Johnson vaccines. However, for the latter case, Morocco will have to be patient.
Morocco has approved the use of the Russian anti-Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, and negotiations have already started between the two countries for its acquisition. To date, the kingdom has vaccinated more than 10% of its population.
Nearly 4 million Moroccans have already received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. The mass vaccination campaign is continuing normally and a batch of 500,000 vaccine doses has recently been received. But for a few days now, some observers have reported a possible vaccine shortage.
In Morocco, the national technical and scientific advisory vaccination committee gave the green light on Tuesday to the American and Russian vaccines Johnson & Johnson and Sputnik V. Their use will however be temporary.
Unlike other developed countries, Morocco has managed to vaccinate more than 10% of its population. A stroke of luck, says Samir Machour, a Moroccan expatriate (MRE) working at Samsung Biologics.
King Mohammed VI received, on Sunday, at the royal palace in Fez the second dose of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine. The first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine had been administered to the Sovereign on January 28.
The Ministry of Health indicated on Saturday, in its daily bulletin, that Morocco has already vaccinated 3,913,615 people for the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Regarding the second dose, a total of 578,942 people have received it.
Morocco is about to receive new batches of the vaccine from the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm. A Dreamliner from Royal Air Maroc (RAM) took off in the early hours of this Saturday, March 6 from Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca, bound for Beijing to deliver part of the order.
More than a month after the launch of the national vaccination campaign against Covid-19, would Morocco be running out of stock? After the first doses administered to 3,820,097 people, the kingdom would only have 200,000 doses left.
Foreign residents, particularly the French, are also participating in the national Covid-19 vaccination campaign. In accordance with the sovereign’s instructions, they have been vaccinated free of charge against Covid-19 and "warmly thank the king".