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Rabat- Morocco received a new shipment of one million doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine today, July 6.
Moroccan television channel 2M announced that a Royal Air Maroc Dreamliner landed in the Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca carrying a new batch of COVID-19 vaccines from Sinopharm.
The new batch seeks to boost Morocco’s vaccination campaign, which started on January 28.
Morocco vaccinated 10,119,393 people with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday.
The number of people who received the second dose of the vaccine reached 9,181, 595 to date.
2M said that another batch of 650,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses is scheduled to arrive in Morocco this month under the COVAX program.
The program is a global initiative that seeks to secure COVID-19 vaccines for developing countries.
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization introduced the initiative in collaboration with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the Coalition for innovations in the fields, among other partners.
Morocco is determined to continue to boost its vaccination campaign.
On Monday, Morocco signed several conventions with international companies, including Sinopharm, to establish itself as a manufacturing leader in the COVID-19 vaccination program.
King Mohammed VI chaired the ceremony of the signing convention at the Royal Palace in Fez.
“This large-scale project will make it possible to strengthen the health resilience of the peoples of the kingdom and of Africa, ” Sinopharm CEO Liu Jingzhen mentioned.
For his part, Morocco’s Minister of Health said that the project is the appropriate response to the emergence of new viral variants.
“To bridge the global inequity in access to vaccines, Africa must trust Africans,” the Minister said, citing King Mohammed VI’s royal vision.
