Morocco narrows span between second and booster jabs

Morocco has shortened to five months the time span between the second and the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as part of an unrelenting offensive to fight the pandemic.

The move is part of forward-looking measures – that may appear to be painful- but which allowed residents in the country to resume normal life.

Doctors recommend a booster jab in order to reinforce collective immunity against new variants such as Omicron.

Morocco has imposed a flight ban on November 29 to gain more time to vaccinate as much as possible of its population.

The North African Kingdom is already an African vaccine champion inoculating 24.3 million people with a first dose and 22.24 million with a second jab.

So far, 1.51 million people have received a booster jab in the country which recently added courts to places only vaccinated people can access.