Morocco still needs 5 million fully vaccinated people in order to achieve a mass immunity system, while health authorities are betting on speeding up the vaccination process in order to reach 80% of vaccinations amongst the country’s population within the upcoming weeks.
For now, the country is placed in the green zone, following the noticeable decrease in COVID-19 cases, with 179 new infections reported on average each day, representing 2% of the peak, according to the latest update of Reuters’ Covid-19 tracker on November 9.
As for vaccination, Morocco has administered at least 47,867,990 doses of anti-COVID-19 vaccines so far, assuming each person needs 2 shots to have vaccinated about 65.6% of the country’s population.
According to the Scientific Committee on vaccination, Moroccans’ demand for vaccination has increased since the adoption of the third booster shots and COVID-19 vaccine pass to access public and private spaces as well as travel starting October 21.
Mustapha Naji, an expert on virology at the Faculty of Medicine at Hassan II University in Casablanca told Hespress that achieving mass immunity depends on respecting precautionary measures as well as getting vaccinated.
The Scientific Committee’s member warned, in a statement that “the risk of infection or reaching critical cases remains possible,” he said, adding, “five million citizens have to get vaccinated before the end of the year in order to return to normal life,” stressing, “with no vaccination, we should keep respecting precautionary measures.”
The expert called on citizens to get their vaccine shots and respect precautionary measures, including wearing masks, disinfecting, as well as respecting social distancing in order to curb the spread of the virus nationwide.
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