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 one of the top 10 countries that have successfully met the challenge of vaccination against Covid-19. The ranking was made on Wednesday by the Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Morocco.
Several candidates for vaccination presented themselves at the vaccination center located at the Al Oulfa Sports Complex in Casablanca in the Hay Hassani district without respecting the scheduled appointments. This confusing situation caused a malfunction in the programming established by the health authorities.
After firing two of its executives last month for serious misconduct, the Ministry of Health is again facing dysfunctions, particularly in the Directorate of Medicines and Pharmacy. Several cases of fraud have recently been reported in the granting of authorizations and licenses to pharmaceutical and medical supply companies.
The Ministry of Health indicated last Sunday that the Coronavirus reproduction rate reached 0.98 in Morocco, nearly a year after the discovery of the first Covid-19 case. During his presentation of the bi-weekly report on the epidemiological situation, the head of the Communicable Diseases Division, Abdelkrim Meziane Bellefquih, welcomed the achievement, specifying that this rate has remained below 1 for the 15th consecutive time.
The Moroccan government should soon announce the easing of the restrictive measures in force since January 13. The decision concerns in particular the extension of the opening hours of shops, cafes and restaurants.
On March 2, 2020, Morocco recorded the first case of Covid-19 contamination through a Moroccan returning from Italy. Since then, the Kingdom has made progress in terms of contamination and the fight against the spread of the pandemic. Between preventive and restrictive measures, the launch of a national vaccination campaign, the Moroccan authorities have done everything to limit the damage.
Despite their fragile health and vulnerability, people with mental disabilities are not among the priority groups to be vaccinated as part of the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Morocco . The association responsible for defending their rights is calling on the government to correct this.
The vaccination campaign in Morocco is a great success in terms of organization, strategies and citizen participation, as more than 3 million Moroccans have already received their first dose of vaccine. A record, according to the German magazine Welt, which argues that Morocco remains an example, both in the management of the pandemic and in the organization of the vaccination campaign.
Less than a month after the launch of the anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign by King Mohammed VI, more than 3 million Moroccans have received the first dose of the vaccine and more than 43,000 have already received the second. Despite the adherence of citizens to the campaign, there are still questions, especially with the cases of infections of the new British variant detected on Moroccan soil.
With more than 3 million people already vaccinated, Morocco has set a new goal as part of the national vaccination campaign against Covid-19. The kingdom could now move to 500,000 people per day.
The Souissi maternity hospital has been recording a worrying number of newborn deaths for some time now. An investigation has been opened by the magistrates of the Court of Auditors to determine, and above all to understand, the reasons behind this explosion in the neonatal mortality rate in this renowned maternity hospital in Rabat .