Morocco Expands COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout to Include Chronic Disease Patients

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Morocco Expands COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout to Include Chronic Disease Patients

Morocco is expanding the circle of beneficiaries of the anti-Covid vaccination. After public security agents, teachers, healthcare personnel and the elderly, it is the turn of people suffering from chronic diseases.

The Ministry of Health, in coordination with the Ministry of the Interior, are drawing up a list of beneficiaries suffering from chronic diseases who should be vaccinated in the very near future. To draw up this list, the officials of the two ministries assigned to this task have used the medical records available in the health insurance funds and institutions.

As of February 16, Morocco had 7 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, announced the head of the communicable diseases division at the Directorate of Epidemiology and Disease Control, Abdelkrim Meziane Belfkih.