Despite the reassuring conclusions of the National Consultative Commission on Pharmacovigilance on the Swedish-British vaccine, AstraZeneca, the Moroccan Ministry of Health has decided to further strengthen the monitoring and safety of the vaccine in the Kingdom.
After a few days of pause, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, which was suffering from a lack of vaccines, will be able to restart. Several million vaccines are expected and the health authorities have started to collect the availability of those who have not yet received the first dose of the vaccine.
To deal with the spread of Covid-19 cases over the past two weeks, the government is considering a strict night-time confinement during the month of Ramadan by decreeing a health curfew from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Despite the precautionary measures taken by the Moroccan authorities, the SARS-CoV2 genomic surveillance system has detected the circulation of the British variant and its spread in 7 regions of Morocco. A scenario that makes a new lockdown of the population increasingly inevitable.
The Minister of Health had promised in November 2020 that Morocco would produce its vaccine against Covid 19. At a time when all the countries in the world are procuring vaccines from Asian and Belgian firms and Morocco is struggling to secure its stocks, we are wondering about the Minister of Health’s promise to announce the production of a 100% Moroccan vaccine.
While the number of coronavirus infections and people in intensive care is increasing, the number of deaths has dropped considerably in Morocco. This is since the expansion of the vaccination campaign to certain vulnerable social groups of the population, as revealed by an official from the Moroccan Ministry of Health.
The Moroccan opposition denounces the silence maintained by the government on the national re-confinement or not during the month of Ramadan , demanding in this regard, more fluid communication with public opinion on the management of the pandemic.
After a few days of calm, Covid-19 infection cases have increased by 6.4% over the past two weeks in Morocco. The announcement was made on Tuesday in Rabat by the head of the communicable diseases division at the Directorate of Epidemiology and Disease Control, Abdelkrim Meziane Belfquih.
When will the real easing of restrictive measures in Morocco take place? While Moroccans were expecting to start the month of Ramadan with a certain freedom, El Othmani warns against a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, just as dangerous as the previous two.
The Moroccan Ministry of Health would have asked the heads of vaccination centers to suspend the administration of the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. For the moment, no official denial has been given to this information widely relayed on social networks.
Volunteers in clinical trials will now be able to benefit from allowances according to a scale set by the Ministry of Health. The researcher must first provide a booklet attesting that the use of the experimental drug or medical equipment does not present any risk to the volunteer, specifies a draft decree adopted by the government.
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.