Morocco monarch receives coronavirus vaccination

Morocco's King Mohammed VI received a shot against the coronavirus on Thursday to officially kick off his country's COVID-19 vaccination campaign. The vaccination initially will mainly target health care workers, security forces and people over age 75, according to Moroccan authorities. The monarch took the jab at the royal palace in the city of Fez.

The North African kingdom received its first shipments of vaccine doses in recent days from China’s Sinopharm and AstraZeneca. The government did not release how many doses it had received, but the royal palace said the country has sufficient quantities to start inoculations in the best conditions. Morocco has reported over 469,000 confirmed cases, and 8,224 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.