Pfizer / BioNTech and Sinopharm delivered to Morocco this Saturday, nearly two million doses of their anti-Covid vaccines. By the time for the ministries concerned to ensure the logistics, the vaccination operation should accelerate and concern the youngest, especially students.
This is a million doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm and just over 950,000 of Pfizer that Morocco has just received. The doses of the Pfizer vaccine are reserved for 12-17 year olds, because, explains Dr Moulay Said Afif, member of the Scientific and Technical Committee for Anti-Covid Vaccination, scientific studies on the American-German vaccine are available, unlike the Chinese vaccine. whose results of studies on the youngest are still awaited.
According to Dr Afif, “the starting point – of the vaccination of this category – will be given in the days to come”. Just enough time to manage the logistics side in the hands of the Ministries of the Interior, Health and Education.
Will also be taken into account, the youngest, “who also find themselves in intensive care” whose vaccination “will achieve collective immunity and especially to ensure a re-entry in the best conditions”, underlined the scientist according to whom, the country has sufficient human and technical resources to make this vaccination campaign a success.
As of Saturday, August 21, 17,261,839 people have already received the vaccine in Morocco and 12,874,716 have already received their second dose.
