Morocco Set to Receive Larger Shipment of Sinopharm COVID-19 Vaccine from China

The quantity of vaccine to be transported has not been disclosed. "However, it will be higher than the first batch of this Chinese vaccine received on January 26," confides an authorized source to Le360.

A Dreamliner from the Royal Air Maroc fleet will transport this second batch of the Sinopharm vaccine. The aircraft will land in Beijing in the late afternoon of this Monday, and should land on a runway at Mohammed V airport on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, late in the morning.

To date, Morocco has received 6.5 million doses of anti-Covid vaccines, representing 10% of the total order placed with Sinopharm (45 million doses) and AstraZeneca (20 million doses). Nearly 1.4 million people have already been vaccinated. This new delivery will give a boost to the ongoing vaccination campaign.