Migrant Advocacy Groups Urge Inclusive COVID-19 Vaccination in Morocco

These organizations, namely the Papiers pour Tous collective, the Democratic Organization of Immigrant Workers (ODT-I) and the Council of Sub-Saharan Migrants in Morocco (CMSM) have presented to the Moroccan health authorities technical and administrative aspects that could exclude or hinder access to Covid-19 vaccination for a large part of the migrant population, indicates a press release signed by all these associations.

The same press release notes that most of these migrants cannot register on the liqahcorona.ma platform without a valid residence permit as required by the online form, and would de facto be excluded from this vaccination operation. These migrants who fear being left out are those who do not have up-to-date residence permits, those who do not have them or those whose application for regularization was rejected, during the two waves of regularization, in 2014, or in 2017, those who do not have any residence permit and who did not apply for regularization during these two years, specifies the same document.

In addition to these categories of migrants, there are also those who entered Moroccan territory after the second exceptional operation to regularize foreigners in 2017, as well as migrants living in non-urban areas, and who live almost in self-sufficiency in forests and mountains. The signatory associations of this letter call on the authorities to show more humanism for this category of the population.