Morocco vaccinated a total of 1,517,503 students aged 12 to 17 within three weeks by Monday night, according to member of the scientific committee on vaccination Moulay Said Afif.
“55 percent of this age group received the Pfizer vaccine, compared to 45 percent who received Sinopharm, while 29,000 students received the second shot of vaccines,” Afif confirmed to Hespress English.
Morocco’s national vaccination campaign was extended to children aged 12 to 17 on August 31.
More than 200,000 students are expected to be vaccinated every day in public and private educational institutions, as well as foreign mission schools, with the aim of vaccinating 3 million students.
“Vaccinating 3 million students will allow raising the rate of herd immunity,” Afif said, adding “in just three weeks, half of the target group was vaccinated.”
The Ministry of Education had decided to postpone school entry to October 1, in a bid to vaccinate the largest possible number of students.
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