Morocco receives 650,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine under Covax program

Morocco received, Saturday night, a new batch of vaccines as part of the Covax program of the World Health Organization (WHO). The new delivery includes 650,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, manufactured by the Italian factory of the Anglo-Swedish laboratory, a well-informed source told Le360.

This second batch of 650,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines, brings the total of vaccine doses allocated by Covax received by Morocco so far to 950,000 doses.  Morocco is expected to get 1.6 million doses under the Covax program. On April 8, Morocco received a first batch of 300,000 doses, manufactured in South Korea.

As of Saturday, 6,171,437 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, while 4,500,638 people have received both doses.