Tunisia begins vaccination campaign

Patients receive the first doses of vaccines in Tunisia on March 13, 2021. REUTERS - ZOUBEIR SOUISSI

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In Tunisia, 30,000 doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V were received on Tuesday March 9 in order to vaccinate 15,000 people.

Vaccination centers have been opened in all 24 regions of the country. 

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With our correspondent in Tunis,

Michel Picard

It was under the dome of the El-Menzah sports palace in Tunis that the first doses were administered, one month late.

On the front line, Meherzia Hammami, nurse: “

I vaccinated.

The recall in 21 days.

 "

The people who have been vaccinated today, she

explains,

are

people from paramedical and medical public health: doctors, nurses, technicians ...

" The operation is simultaneous in the 24 regions of the country.

These 30,000 vaccines will quickly run out, but the authorities are announcing the arrival in the coming weeks of 500,000 new Russian doses, 193,000 Pfizer, 137,000 AstraZeneca and even 200,000 Chinese doses of Sinovac.

Registrations are made by phone or internet.

“

All the population normally has benefited from a registration site.

And when the lots will come, we will receive SMS to announce the date of vaccination for each case, 

”explains Dr. Kamel Ayed, regional secretary of the Red Crescent.

For the time being, less than 5% of the population is registered on the Evax platform.

Doctor Jalila Ben Khalil, from the country's main Covid intensive care unit, received his dose.

A member of the pandemic committee, she especially hopes that these vaccines offer a new start in this country in crisis: “

It gives a lot of hope so that we can get out of it, especially economically.

"

The Minister of Health says that three million people, or a quarter of the population, will be vaccinated by the end of June.

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