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· Tunisia took delivery of more than a million doses of covid-19 vaccines from France
· The French navy also delivered three tanks filled with liquefied oxygen at the port of Rades, a southern suburb of Tunis
· At a time when medics are currently struggling to deal with rise in the number of infections, the doses will enable the inoculation of around 3,000 people in a day
Tunisia took delivery of more than a million doses of covid-19 vaccines from France. The French navy also delivered three tanks filled with liquefied oxygen at the port of Rades, a southern suburb of Tunis. At a time when medics are currently struggling to deal with rise in the number of infections, the doses will enable the inoculation of around 3,000 people in a day.
As of now, Paris has supplied 624,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines. This includes 324,000 via the Covax initiative. Close to 500,000 doses of the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine will be added shortly.
Tunisia, has 12 million people and has now received about 3.2 million doses of the vaccine. It hopes to obtain more than 5 million by mid-August. The other countries provided vaccines to the North African country included the United States of America, Saudi Arabia and China. The country faced a slow vaccination drive due to a lack of doses. Tunisia has registered 558,000 confirmed cases. Of that, 454, 000 people have recovered and 18,052 deaths as of Friday July 23.
