Abderrahmane Fadil, 60, a science teacher of Moroccan origin living in Bradford, UK, says he made the "biggest mistake of his life" by refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19. He narrowly escaped death after contracting the coronavirus.
The quarantine imposed on Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) or foreign tourists coming from countries classified on list B has proven ineffective. Several malfunctions have been recorded. Clusters have even been discovered in some hotels.
Mohammed Youbi, director of the Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control (DELM), has been diagnosed positive for Covid-19. He is reassuring about his health condition.
Moroccans aged 40 and over who have not yet benefited from vaccination can now go to vaccination centers every day of the week, including Sunday.
Covid-19 cases are on the rise in Morocco. Faced with this situation, the Minister of Health, Khalid Ait Taleb , calls on Moroccans to be vigilant and above all to strictly respect health measures, threatening a new lockdown.
Morocco received, this Friday, July 2, 2021, an additional 500,000 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine. Enough to correct the slowdown in its vaccination campaign against the coronavirus.
The summer season as well as the easing of restrictive measures expose Morocco to a resurgence of Covid-19 cases, particularly in these times of spread of the Delta variant, which is very contagious. This is what Dr. Tayeb Hamdi, researcher in health policies and systems and vice-president of the National Federation of Health, declares in an interview with Challenge .
Due to the epidemiological situation related to the coronavirus pandemic in Morocco in recent days, the Head of Government, Saad Dine El Otmani , calls on the population to be more vigilant and cautious. Over the past two weeks, the kingdom has recorded an increase in cases of contamination and active cases, as well as an increase in critical cases and a high occupancy rate in hospitals.
The services of the Moulay Youssef hospital in Casablanca are on maximum alert due to Covid 19. Doctors suspect Moroccans living abroad of having contracted the variant Delta.
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.