Covid-19 : Morocco receives 2 million doses of Chinese vaccine on Thursday

Morocco received on Thursday, May 27, two million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine against the new coronavirus. This morning, two Royal Air Maroc (RAM) planes carrying said vaccine doses landed, a few hours apart, at the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca.

Until then, Morocco will have acquired 9 million doses from Beijing. By the end of this month, this number will have to reach 10 million.

This month, the Ministry of Health expanded the national anti-Covid19 vaccination campaign to citizens in the 45 to 50 age group. As of Wednesday, a total of 8,148,964 people have received the first dose while 4,996,705 have received the second.