The United Kingdom, like the European Union (EU), has announced that the Moroccan vaccine pass will be recognized.

According to a statement released by the British government on Friday, the Moroccan vaccination card would be recognized and approved for travel to the United Kingdom.

Only four vaccinations are accepted, according to the same source: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, and Jansen.

However, acknowledgment of the Moroccan pass does not imply de facto acceptance of all of the Kingdom’s entry requirements into the United Kingdom.

The comparability between the health certificates is essentially technical and allows mutual readability of the QR codes, whether in terms of vaccine passes or PCR testing, as the European Union has also accepted the Moroccan pass.

The UK has announced today that Morocco 🇲🇦 will be added to the list of countries whose vaccine certification is accepted for travel to the UK 🇬🇧.

This update includes the following vaccines: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna and Jansen. pic.twitter.com/gWyKOCQYnT

— UK in Morocco (@UKinMorocco) October 7, 2021

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On Wednesday, Matt Hancock, Britain’s Health Minister, announced the discovery of a new strain of corona virus.

“This virus is more contagious, and it seems that it has evolved more than the new virus,” said Hancock at a press conference. Noting that two cases of another type of “covid-19” have been detected. Both of which have been contacted by cases from South Africa over the past few weeks.

He clarified that the British government imposes restrictions of travel to South Africa, and a mandatory two-week quarantine on south African arrivals who have been in contact with them.

The British Advisory Council, liable of the new emerging threats of respiratory system viruses, announced last Saturday that the new strain of corona virus, which is spreading faster, requires caution from population. Pointing that according to preliminary estimations, the prevalence of the new strain may be 70% higher.

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Earlier this week, Britain announced that they authorized a Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine, becoming the world’s first country to do so. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that “Help is on the way!” as he announced the news Wednesday morning.

Britain is expected to receive an initial order of 800,000 doses over the next week. The country also announced that they are planning on receiving “many millions” before the end of the week. Britain has ordered 40 million doses that are expected to arrive from Pfizer’s facilities in Belgium.

The 40 million doses are set to vaccinate 20 million people, as the vaccine requires two shots. The elderly, immunocompromised people, and those with health problems are expected to be a top priority, but there have been talks that frontline workers are not.

After Britain, Bahrain is the world’s second country to grant an emergency-use authorization for Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s vaccine.

Bahrain News Agency, a state-run news agency, announced the following on Friday: “The confirmation of approval by the National Health Regulatory Authority of the kingdom of Bahrain followed thorough analysis and review undertaken by the authority of all available data.”

The Kingdom did not disclose how many doses were ordered nor when vaccinations are going to begin.

Transporting, storing, and using the vaccines in Bahrain is expected to be challenging since the vaccine doses must be stored in ultra-cold temperatures that go as cold as -70° C. The challenge comes as Bahrain is a Middle Eastern country where temperature can go as high as 40° C.

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Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccans Residing Abroad, met his counterpart, James Heappey, Minister of British Armed Forces today, Thursday, November 5^th, in Rabat.

The British minister is accompanied on his official visit to Morocco by both John Lorimer, Lieutenant General, and Simon Martin, the British ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco. The Minister of the British Armed Forces will meet with a number of military and government officials to discuss issues of common concern.

This visit is within the Moroccan-British military cooperation framework. Bond by mutual support and trainings, both countries work on the evolution of their mutual cooperation.

One of the training sessions British Military takes part in is the “Jebel Sahara” exercise which takes place annually in Marrakech.

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