Morocco received on Sunday Morning a new batch of COVID-19 vaccine from the Chinses pharmaceutical company, Sinopharm, a source from the Ministry of Health confirmed.
Royal Air Maroc’s Dreamliner B787-9 aircraft landed this morning at Casablanca’s International Airport carrying 500,000 doses of Sinopharm’s Covid vaccine. It is the third shipment that came from China since January.
The overall count of doses that Morocco has secured so far is 8 million and a half, 7 million Astrazeneca-oxford vaccine doses, while 1 million and a half doses came from Sinopharm.
Morocco has vaccinated almost 4 million of its citizens with the first dose of vaccine, and more than half a million have been received their second shot since it started its national vaccination campaign on January 28, 2021.
In Africa's continent, Morocco was the first nation to start a national vaccination against COVID-19 and is still among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of the highest number of people vaccinated against the pandemic.
According to a statement has been recently issued by the Ministry of Health, Morocco is expected to have immunized 80 percent of its citizens (more than 30 million) within 5 months at maximum before the summer begins.
The Moroccan officials have so often said that the only way to get out from the pandemic's negative effects is through achieving herd immunity.
