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Morocco to Administer Two Vaccine Doses for COVID-19 Survivors, Diverging from French Guidance

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Morocco to Administer Two Vaccine Doses for COVID-19 Survivors, Diverging from French Guidance

Contrary to the decision of the French High Authority for Health (HAS), recommending the injection of a single dose to people already infected with the coronavirus, Morocco will continue to inject the double dose to these patients. These doses will be administered 21 days apart for Sinopharm and 28 days for AstraZeneca.

Morocco will also not be able to save the half-million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. This recommendation from the HAS concerns countries that have ordered messenger RNA vaccines, that of Pfizer in particular, which is not administered in Morocco. "No study has been done on the vaccines used in Morocco: that of Sinopharm and that of AstraZeneca. Consequently, since the messenger RNA vaccines are not administered in Morocco, the vaccine requires two doses, including for people who have contracted Covid-19," recalled Samira Bouihi, in charge of the vaccination operation in a local health center in Casablanca, as quoted by Le360.

According to the health authorities, people infected with Covid-19 must wait between one and three months before receiving their two vaccine doses, 21 days apart for Sinopharm and 28 days for AstraZeneca. This Tuesday, the kingdom received another batch of 500,000 vaccine doses.

Category: Morocco
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Coronavirus in Morocco (Covid-19) COVID-19 vaccine

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