Covid-19: a national vaccination day organized in Tunisia
In Tunisia, the Ministry of Health organized, this Sunday, August 8, 2021, a national vaccination day to fight against Covid-19.
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A national vaccination day was organized this Sunday, August 8, in Tunisia.
One and a half million doses have thus been made available to several hundred centers across the country.
Anyone 40 years of age and over can be vaccinated.
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With our correspondent in Tunis,
Matthias Raynal
For this national day, schools have been requisitioned.
We went to downtown Tunis, to the Bourguiba pilot school.
The organization was there.
Patients calmly waited for their vaccinations, while others received their doses.
The vaccination is done in waves in two classrooms.
Doctors chain inject the vaccine.
It does not last more than 10 minutes.
For this large-scale operation, 335 centers opened across the country at 7:00 a.m. this Sunday morning.
Many people have moved to all regions of Tunisia.
The citizens responded overwhelmingly to the authorities' call.
In the center of the Bourguiba pilot high school, this Sunday morning, an agent of the municipality confided to me his joy to be there.
A very close friend of his has succumbed to the coronavirus.
For him, it was important to be able to protect oneself and to protect others.
It must be said that Tunisia is in a very difficult situation.
It now deplores nearly 21,000 deaths, for a population of 12 million inhabitants.
Today's operation was held until 6:00 p.m. UT and is expected to be repeated in the future.
Report from the Bourguiba pilot school
Matthias raynal
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