Tunisia’s health ministry said it vaccinated a record of 551,008 people in a single day on Sunday across Tunis governorate, as worldwide donations lifted the country’s stock of vaccine jabs.
335 centers spread over all Tunisia’s governorates administered AstraZeneca shots to people aged 40 and above.
According to the latest statistics provided by the Ministry of Health, the governorate of Nabeul comes first in terms of the number of people vaccinated, with 62,879 doses of vaccine administered, followed by the governorate of Sfax (45,959 doses) Tunis (40,756 doses).
President Kais Saied sacked Prime Minister Hichem Mechich following protests driven by COVID-19 mismanagement.
The country which had declared a zero-case in May 2020, recorded in recent weeks a daily death toll of at least 100 people, its hospitals are overcrowded and under-resourced and consistently struggled to get the necessary vaccine doses under Mechichi’s government.
Saied set up a crisis unit to deal with Covid-19 and opened vaccinations for those over the age of 40 to help alleviate the health crisis.
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