Morocco Urges Leaders to Set Example as COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Nears

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Morocco Urges Leaders to Set Example as COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Nears

A few days before the start of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Morocco, the debate on the effectiveness of the vaccine remains open. The physician and member of the Democratic Left Federation (FGD), Mustapha Chennaoui, has joined the debate by calling on parliamentarians, civil servants from government departments and the administration, political leaders, trade unionists and civil society leaders to get vaccinated against the virus to generate enthusiasm among citizens.

It is on his Facebook page that the deputy gave his point of view on the vaccination campaign. "We must be consistent in our positions, our actions and our practices with our speeches, and link words to action while applying and embodying to the letter what we recommend to others to do," he wrote, while stressing that he remains convinced of the "necessity and importance of vaccination in general, and vaccination against Covid-19, in particular".

Even though he is part of the opposition, he cannot "believe that the state and the leaders are about to push health cadres, women and men of education, local authorities, security forces... into the abyss by injecting them with the Covid-19 vaccine as part of the experiment". For Mustapha Chennaoui, it is still important to understand the fear of some and the reservations of others as well as the questions of citizens about the effectiveness, safety and absence of prejudice with regard to the Covid-19 vaccine.

As a trained physician, Chennaoui stated that "thanks to the immunity provided by the vaccine, several diseases will be completely eliminated and the spread of certain diseases, reduced, as well as the ferocity of certain viruses and bacteria after their entry into the body". Although supporting the vaccination campaign, the deputy explained that "permanent prevention and health precautions are the only way to protect against infection".