In light of the third booster shot kicking off in Morocco, the 35-45 age group is threatening the vaccination progress of the country, sources from the Scientific Committee told Hespress.
As part of the national vaccination campaign, Morocco has just received 270,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
However, 35 to 45-year-olds continue to show a weak interest in obtaining the jab, despite Morocco’s uptake of the booster shot.
By now, every adult in Morocco has had an opportunity to get at least one jab of anti-Covid-19 vaccines, but with millions from the eligible population feeding on anti-vaccine rhetoric, the stakes are becoming high for the North African country’s immunization drive.
Considering the issue raised by the 35-45 age group, member of the scientific committee Mustafa Al-Naji said that “the third dose is progressing well within the hour.” Adding that “this group needs calls, especially since it consists of approximately one million people, and is essential to ensuring collective immunity.”
In the same context, the director of the Virus Laboratory at Hassan II University in Casablanca called on everyone to receive the jabs, adding that 5 million unvaccinated Moroccans are distributed among all groups.
The anti-vaccine movement was included by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its report on the ten greatest risks to global health, and this was before Covid-19.
In the 2019 report, the WHO said “vaccination is one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent diseases. It currently avoids 2 to 3 million deaths a year, and another 1.5 million could be avoided if vaccine coverage were improved in the world.”
Morocco has not made vaccine passes mandatory, but with rising rates of vaccination, health professionals say vaccine passes could become required for access to public places such as libraries and movie theaters.
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