The President of the Republic, Kais Saied, supervised,on Monday, July 5, 2021 at Carthage Palace, an emergency meeting attended by the head of government  Hichem Mechichi, Ministers of National Defense, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Tunisians Abroad, Health and Local Affairs, Governor of the Central Bank, Senior Military and Security Executives, and Director of the Pasteur Institute.

According to a statement published by the Presidency of the Republic, this meeting dealt with the real and deep reasons that led to the current situation, which is becoming increasingly complex and dangerous day after day, as the head of state insisted  that the loss of the battle was the result of a number of political choices that did not take into account the most basic human rights, but were subject to narrow partisan interests that have no effect on them for any human consideration.

Intensifying diplomatic work to expedite the process of bringing vaccinations against Covid-19, dividing the country into regions so that each region includes two or more states according to the incidence of infection cases per 100,000 residents during the past 14 days,creating work teams consisting of the military, security and health frameworks under a unified command under the supervision of the Director-General of Military Health to intensify vaccination operations according to the recommendations of the Scientific Committee for Vaccination, Inviting medical and paramedical personnel, including biomedical specialists, who graduated during the last three years, to perform national service, and this will be through a notification to be published in all media and initiating the concentration of field work teams in the priority regions in terms of the spread of infection to undertake vaccination operations are the procedures they agreed on.

These procedures will start from the governorate of Tataouine, given that it is witnessing a wide spread of infection. The order of the regions will be reviewed according to the degree of spread of the

It should be mentioned that, the President of the Republic, Kais Saïed, indicated that it is impossible to decree a new total containment in the country, given the difficult economic and social situation in the country.

He added that it is time to assess the situation and make the right decisions after prevention measures have proven ineffective.