While Morocco is recording an increase in the Covid 19 infection rate, and only a third of the population has received the first dose of the vaccine, the Ministry of Health would have given instructions to vaccination centers to stop administering the first dose for both types of vaccine from June 30. A decision that raises questions about the real availability of the vaccine in Morocco.
The Ministry of Health called on Wednesday all citizens to be cautious and strictly respect the preventive measures against Covid 19 to avoid any "epidemiological relapse", which could mean a "return to square one".
The latest information on the Delta variant of covid 19 in the world is worrying several Moroccan observers who are already calling for tougher restrictions. As was the case last year, the virus spread rate could flare up with the celebration of Eid al-Adha.
The leader of the Hirak, Nasser Zefzafi went on Wednesday, June 30, to the bedside of his father hospitalized in a private clinic in Tangier after being authorized by the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR).
Nasser Zefzafi was admitted on Tuesday to a hospital in Tangier after losing consciousness in his cell. This is the third time he has been transferred to a health center since February.
When questioned about the Kingdom’s vaccination strategy in the response against covid, the former scientific director of "Warp Speed" operation in the United States, Dr. Moncef Slaoui of Moroccan origin, Moncef Slaoui , affirms that Morocco has been able to access the necessary vaccine doses to protect its population against the new coronavirus. He reaffirms his availability to help the kingdom produce its vaccine.
The Moroccan music world is in mourning. The artist-singer, Abdelmounaim El Jamaï, died on Sunday in Rabat after a long illness. He was 73 years old.
Traveling throughout Morocco and even abroad is possible thanks to the vaccine pass issued after the two doses, the health authorities have just clarified following rumors circulating on social networks.
Morocco is not immune to a new wave of Covid-19 contamination, despite the improvement in the epidemiological situation and the decline in deaths and cases admitted to intensive care, warned the researcher at the Faculty of Medicine in Rabat, Khalid Fathi, calling for extreme vigilance.
A 10-year-old Moroccan girl, Israe, suffering from Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone cancer, was able to be operated on at the HM Nou Delfos hospital in Barcelona thanks to the fundraising initiated by her parents in Morocco.
Like other countries, Morocco is facing a worrying delay in its vaccination campaign. To this end, the project of local production of vaccines against Covid-19 is increasingly being considered, both at the state and private levels. In order to defeat the virus, the health authorities wish to depend less solely on vaccine imports.
"Flakka", the "zombie drug" or "drug that drives you crazy", mainly produced in China, now seems to be present in [Morocco]. A first victim has already been recorded.