The first vaccinations against Covid-19 in Algeria will take place in January.

This is what President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced on Sunday evening, asking that the "adequate vaccine" be chosen.

"I instructed the Prime Minister to chair, without delay, a meeting with the Scientific Committee for monitoring the evolution of the Coronavirus pandemic in order to choose the appropriate anti-Covid-19 vaccine and launch the vaccination campaign from January 2021 ", wrote Mr. Tebboune on his Twitter account.

Algeria has still not decided on the choice of vaccine.

Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad recently assured that Algeria "will acquire the anti-Coronavirus vaccine offering certain guarantees, hence the need to avoid any haste or random decision".

Chloroquine treatment

In the meantime, people with Covid-19 are treated in hospitals with, in particular, hydroxychloroquine. 

From the outset, "the Algerian health authorities opted to administer hydroxychloroquine to hospitalized patients with a cover antibiotic and a corticosteroid as well as anticoagulants", told AFP Dr Bekkat Berkani, member of the Monitoring Committee the evolution of the pandemic.

Nearly 100,000 contaminations have been identified in the largest country in Africa since the registration of the first case on February 25, including 2,666 deaths, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health published on Sunday.

Mr Tebboune is recovering in Germany, where he was urgently hospitalized on October 28 after contracting the new coronavirus.

The Algerian president, aged 75, promised last Sunday to return to Algeria "as soon as possible", in principle within two weeks at most, during his first public appearance, in a five-minute video, since mid-October.

Since then, Mr. Tebboune has manifested his return to the helm of the State through daily tweets.

With AFP

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