Moroccan Opposition Leader Questions COVID Vaccine Safety, Urges Caution

Although she has seen many of her party’s activists affected by the coronavirus, in addition to the awareness campaigns against the pandemic organized by PSU members, at a time when some 4,000 people have been infected in several regions of the Kingdom in a single day, Mounib "persisted in questioning the very existence of the virus", according to Hespress.com.

"How is it possible to find a vaccine against a virus that is not even a year old?" questioned the political leader, during a videoconference organized on Thursday by the Fqih Tetouanais Foundation for Thought and Literature, in which she participated.

So far, Mounib is not reassured about the government’s initiative to import Chinese vaccines. "There must be a Moroccan team working on the production of these vaccines," she estimated, before adding: "In Germany, 700 researchers have warned against the alarmism surrounding Covid-19".

"I’m afraid for Moroccans, and I tell them not to stretch out their arms for just anything," she noted. Mounib also invited the authorities not to vaccinate Moroccans before confirming the first experiments. An opinion that certainly did not receive the approval of all within the political and ruling class in Morocco.