Morocco is planning to begin administering COVID-19 vaccines to teenagers, as the country charts ahead mass immunization drive, with over 24 million doses of the AstraZeneca and Sinopharm vaccines given to people.
“Morocco is set to open vaccination for ages 17 years and above in the coming days,” member of the scientific committee on vaccination Moulay Said Afif told Hespress English.
The North African country ranks amongst the top in the continent to systematically vaccinate its population since vaccine production became available worldwide.
But fears over a Delta-driven wave of infections are casting a long shadow over a potential emergence of high cases and deaths.
The World Health Organization said that the Delta variant was first identified in India, and is more transmissible to a point that it has spread to at least 77 countries from Morocco to Pakistan.
The WHO called the variant “the fastest and fittest,” harmful for both unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated people.
The variant is more dangerous than others, with the first dose of the vaccine unable to offer enough protection to combat infections, leaving people in the interval period between the two doses at risk of catching it.
A steady increase in cases has driven the government to adopt stricter restrictions, namely extending its night curfew, by two hours earlier at 9 p.m.
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