Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection on Wednesday launched an extensive national campaign to strengthen vaccination against measles, part of its proactive policy aimed at limiting the spread of epidemics and strengthening response.
This initiative aims to restore child vaccination to levels observed before the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to a drop in vaccination coverage rates in most regions and provinces of the Kingdom, the ministry pointed out in a press release.
The ministry strongly encourages all families to promptly review their children’s medical records in health centers and private practices to ensure the administration of the required doses for measles (at the ages of nine and eighteen months), the same source noted, stressing the need to administer two doses of vaccine to children not yet vaccinated while supplementing the doses for those who have received only one dose.
As part of its communication strategy aimed at monitoring the epidemiological evolution of measles and
its continued efforts to contain the spread of epidemiological diseases and protect public health, the ministry announces that it has monitored the emergence of new cases of measles in Morocco suggesting a more widespread expansion of the virus, the same source said.
Emphasizing the importance of this campaign as a preventive measure aimed at protecting citizens and society from the risk of measles, the ministry encourages all parties concerned to actively participate in this operation and visit health centers to receive the vaccine free of charge, the same source noted.
Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse
TULKARM: Israeli occupation forces embarked tonight on a wide-scale raid of the Nour Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank province of Tulkarm, imposing a strict siege on it, according to local sources.
WAFA correspondent reported that as many as 50 Israeli military vehicles raided the Nour Shams refugee camp, declaring it a closed military zone, prohibiting entry and exit of Palestinian citizens into and out of the camp.
Additionally, Israeli forces raided several homes in Jabal Al-Saleheen neighborhood of the camp, conducting searches and subjecting the inhabitants to interrogation.
Meantime, Israeli drones targeted a site within the Al-Manshiya neighborhood of the camp, the nature of which remains unknown due to the tight siege, amidst pleas for help and ambulance access as several injuries were reported. However, Israeli forces are obstructing their entry.
Furthermore, Israeli bulldozers are currently leveling the surroundings of the Ikataba roundabout east of the neighboring Tulkarm city, alon
g with the adjacent street facing the camp, destroying infrastructure.
This offensive coincides with a wide-scale invasion of the city from its western and southern entrances, involving over 50 Israeli military vehicles and heavy bulldozers.
Israeli surveillance and reconnaissance drones are hovering over the camp and the adjacent city of Tulkarm, amid reports of intense gunfire and explosions.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA