Morocco Considers Mandatory Vaccine Pass for Public Spaces

The Scientific Committee is in favor of making the vaccine pass mandatory. The document could be required to access certain public places such as restaurants, cafes, cinemas, parks, schools, etc. and avoid controls during periods of health restrictions. "The vaccine pass will be applied when the time comes, as the number of vaccinated people is increasing day by day," said Azzedine Ibrahimi, member of the Scientific Committee and director of the Biotechnology Laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine in Rabat.

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Invited on Wednesday in the 2M television news, Ibrahimi justified the importance of this measure by the need for the state to continue to preserve public health and ensure the common good, despite the resistance of some people to get vaccinated. But will the vaccine passport be required in universities and schools for the upcoming school year? To this question, Azzedine Ibrahimi replied that such a decision could not be applied without consultation between the Ministries of Health and Education, while stressing that several American universities have already set vaccination as a condition of access to their campuses.

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The subject is the subject of lively debate in Moroccan society. The majority of the population considers the vaccine pass as an infringement of individual freedoms. "The welfare state has the right to reduce a freedom in the name of the general interest, which is, in this case, health security and de facto collective immunity," clarified Azzedine Ibrahimi, recalling that "the freedom of each ends where that of others begins." And he added: "An unvaccinated person is detrimental to society by circulating and carrying the virus."

In reality, the vaccine pass will be implicitly an obligation, insofar as the increase in the number of vaccinated people is approaching the achievement of collective immunity.