Morocco is preparing to receive next week 1.8 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, as the country races against a spread of the Delta variant to reach mass immunization.
Saïd Afif, member of the Scientific and Technical Committee for Vaccination told Hespress the expected Pfizer doses will reinforce the country’s stock of vaccines enabling the extension of vaccination to people over the age of 18. He said Morocco received one million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine on Thursday and expects another two million doses on 8 August 2021.
The Pfizer vaccine would become the 4th anti-Covid-19 vaccine that Morocco was able to acquire, after Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, and Janssen.
Morocco has already received 21.5 million doses of the Chinese vaccine.
The kingdom recently announced that it will be manufacturing Sinopharm’s vaccine locally.
The North African country places 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, with a steady increase in cases forcing the government to adopt stricter restrictions, namely extending its night curfew, by two hours earlier at 9 p.m.
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