The Washington-based Brookings Institution highlighted Morocco’s performance in the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, listing the Kingdom among the best performers in the Middle East and North Africa region. In fact, between March and August 2020, these countries were three of the best performers in the MENA region in terms of infections and deaths. According to the Institution, this success was largely due to the strong initial security and public health responses. “Jordan, Tunisia, and Morocco adopted some of the strictest security responses of any country in the region. Today, Morocco, Tunisia, and Jordan hope to contain the outbreak by vaccinating a majority of their populations; they aim to do this in or by the spring of 2021.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 23, 2021 19:41 UTC