40% of Morocco's inmates vaccinated against Covid-19

While all the employees of the prison administration have been vaccinated against the new coronavirus, 4,800 inmates have received the anti-Covid-19 vaccine, according to the head of the health service of the General Delegation of the Prison and Reintegration Administration (DGAPR). 

Quoted Wednesday by Anadolu, Abdallah Tawfik recalled that this number represents 40% of the target population, estimated at 12,000 detainees.

On the sidelines of the vaccination process in the Arjat 1 prison near Rabat, the official recalled that «the vaccination campaign inside the prisons is part of the vaccination process nationally».

Anadolu, which quotes an official from the Moroccan Ministry of Health, recalls that Morocco has received a total of 13.5 million doses of vaccines from Sinopharm and AstraZeneca, since last January, to which are added the 2 million doses sent this Thursday to the kingdom. The country has also received, as part of the «Covax» program, 950,000 doses of the vaccine against Covid-19.

As of Wednesday, 8,148,964 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, while 4,996,705 people have received the second.