Following the arrival of the third shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine in Morocco yesterday, the Ministry of Health announced the national vaccination campaign's extension within the country.
According to a Ministry of Health statement, the vaccination campaign will be extended to people aged 65 and over as of today.
In the early days of the vaccination campaign in Morocco (the campaign started on January 28, 2021), health workers and public authorities were the first categories targeted by the campaign.
The vaccination campaign in the Kingdom of Morocco is ongoing gradually. A total of 855,318 people have been vaccinated so far, according to the ministry, which underlines that the vaccination campaign is taking place in a climate marked by the full respect of the preventive and Health measures issued.
The Ministry of Health calls all citizens belonging to the targeted categories to continue to take part in this large-scale national project, with a view to progressing towards collective immunity.
as a reminder, Morocco has secured 6 million and a half doses of COVID-19 vaccine so far, 6 million of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, and half a million of Sinopharm.
