Morocco Aims to Vaccinate 80% of Population Against COVID-19 Within 5 Months

13 February 2021 – byBladi.net · 1 min read

Moroccans are eager to resume a normal life and relegate this difficult episode of the coronavirus to the past. To this end, the kingdom plans to complete the anti-Covid vaccination operation within 3 to 5 months to achieve collective immunity and ensure a return to normal life, announced this Friday in Beni Mellal, the Minister of Health, Khalid Ait Taleb.

Morocco wants to vaccinate 30 million Moroccans, or 80% of the population, within 5 months, in accordance with the plan drawn up for the implementation of the national anti-Covid vaccination campaign, recalled Minister Khalid Ait Taleb during the launch of the vaccination campaign in Beni-Mellal-Khénifra.

For the minister, the vaccination pace adopted in recent days could make it possible to achieve this objective in order to ensure a return to normal life. According to him, this pace should increase gradually as the vaccine batches expected increase, since the operation of administering the second dose of the vaccine will begin next Friday.

More than two weeks after the launch of the vaccination campaign, Morocco has already vaccinated more than one million people, the minister recalled, confident that the vaccination operation is taking place under "favorable conditions".

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