Morocco will take part in multicenter trials relating to Covid-19 to obtain the sufficient quantity of the vaccine in a timely manner, Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb said Monday in Rabat.
"The Kingdom, like what is happening across the world, internationally, will participate along some countries in multicenter clinical trials relating to Covid-19 as long as it has the regulatory and legal arsenal allowing it to position itself to obtain the sufficient quantity of the vaccine for citizens in a timely manner and ensure the transfer of knowledge to achieve self-sufficiency in relation to vaccine production," he told reporters.
The minister, who said that several countries have joined efforts to find a vaccine in record time mainly before the end of the year, noted that Morocco, which puts the health of citizens at the center of its concerns, has accompanied from the beginning these efforts through partnerships and cooperation agreements in order to obtain the vaccine.
Commenting the epidemiological situation at the international level, the minister said that it is experiencing a lot of changes and uncertainty since different systems have been affected on the economic, health, commercial and human levels, despite the efforts made to contain the pandemic.
"The solution today which would seem to emerge as a ray of hope is to find a vaccine so that life gets back to normal," he pointed out.
The minister noted that the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to calls for increasing efforts to try to respond at the appropriate time knowing that the virus continues to spread across the world.
He also called on citizens to stay alert and show responsibility and solidarity, in particular on the eve of the start of the school year, encouraging them to comply with the precautionary measures by wearing protective masks and respecting physical distancing.