“General lockdown will be limited to the areas most affected by the coronavirus,” said Today, Thursday, Sami Mourali, a member of the Scientific Committee to Combat Coronavirus, stressing that the lockdown can not be decreed on the whole of the country because of its socio-economic repercussions.
He said, in a statement to the TAP agency, after a meeting held by the Committee under the chairmanship of the Minister of Health, Faouzi Mahdi, that the general lockdown will only concern the areas where the rate Infection is 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, namely that the Committee has called upon to adopt support measures in these regions.
Mourali added that the Committee referred to several issues including the presence of the public at various events, in particular sports, believing that it is unreasonable to authorize supporters to attend these kinds of events, while the epidemic situation is very serious. He pointed out that the Committee refuses public participation in the manifestations, especially athletes, given the emergence of mutated strains, which are characterized by rapid propagation between the youngest age groups.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Health announced last night the results of a partial genomic sequencing of a positive cases infected with the virus, which revealed the presence of 6 cases of infection by the Indian strain ” Delta”.
The Committee recommended, according to Mourali, supporting the health system by strengthening the recruitment of medical and paramedical staff and accelerating the national VVID-19 vaccination campaign. The Scientific Committee maintained the arrival-related travel procedures in Tunisia, which were announced by the Government Presidency on 26 May 2021, including, in particular, the lifting of compulsory lockdown for arrivals in Tunisia from June 1, 2021.
