Morocco Urges Child Vaccination as COVID-19 Deaths Rise Among Youth

This process, explains Otmani in a video shared on social networks, is undertaken due to the resurgence of positive cases recorded within this age group. According to him, with the accentuated spread of the Delta variant among the youngest, 19 children have died from a Covid-19 infection, including eight, in this month of August alone.

According to him, since the beginning of the spread of the virus in Morocco, 256 children have been admitted to intensive care, including 117 during the month of August alone, hence, he warned, the importance of intensifying the anti-Covid vaccination campaign "so that we can protect students and limit the spread of the virus".

To this end, the committee has adopted the Sinopharm and Pfizer vaccines, the effectiveness and safety of which for this age group have been established by international trials, stressing that this process must be voluntary, optional and conditional on the authorization of parents and guardians of students.

And El Otmani concluded: "Although this process is optional and voluntary, we call for widespread participation in this vaccination campaign," citing the example of some countries that have already vaccinated their students to achieve herd immunity.