Tunisian Health Minister Faouzi Mahdi revealed today, Tuesday, that the first vaccinations against the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) in Tunisia will start next Saturday.
Mahdi said - in a statement to (Tunisia Africa) news agency - that this batch will enable the vaccination of 15,000 beneficiaries of the first-line workers in the Covid 19 system, the elderly, and those with chronic diseases, provided that the beneficiaries will be given another dose of vaccination after 3 weeks. .
The minister confirmed - during his supervision at Tunis Carthage Airport on receiving the first batch of vaccines coming from Russia, consisting of 30,000 doses of the Russian vaccine (Sputnik V) - that there is a plan to vaccinate 3 million Tunisians by next June, with the arrival of other quantities of the vaccine, either from Through the "Kovacs" initiative or through the purchase deals concluded between the Ministry of Health in Tunisia and international drug laboratories .. It is expected that the number of those registered in the national vaccination system will increase with the start of the vaccination campaign.
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