Morocco’s Health Minister: COVID-19 Vaccine Arrival Imminent Amid Delivery Pressures

"We are waiting for the arrival of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine at any moment," the Minister of Health assured in a telephone interview with Le360, adding that he cannot give a precise and exact date so as not to disappoint the public.

In total, the kingdom is awaiting an initial batch of one million doses of this vaccine. As for the Chinese vaccine from the Sinopharm laboratory, ordered first by the kingdom, it should experience a delivery delay for reasons that remain obscure for the moment.

Faced with this delay in the delivery of the first doses of the vaccine, while the kingdom was one of the pioneers in ordering the vaccines, the minister admits that "a huge pressure is weighing on us" from his ministry, the government, and citizens. "We will only say that the vaccine is arriving when we are certain that it will be there," he specified.

But he does not rule out the possibility that the AstraZeneca vaccine could be received this Saturday. According to him, he prefers to remain cautious, as last-minute changes have been observed in the past. "I ardently wish that it will be there, but we have to wait," he added.