UAE sends vaccines to Tunisia
Tunisia is experiencing historic highs in daily COVID-19 cases, though its vaccination rate is among the highest in Africa.
The United Arab Emirates sent a batch of COVID-19 vaccine doses to Tunisia on Tuesday. The North African country is experiencing an outbreak of the coronavirus, though it has had some success in vaccinating its population.
The UAE sent a plane carrying 500,000 vaccine doses to Tunisia. The move was due to the “difficult circumstances Tunisia is facing now as a result of the pandemic” and followed a phone call between Tunisian President Kais Saied and Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, according to the official Emirates News Agency.
Virus cases in Tunisia are at a historic high. Daily infections have gone up dramatically this month and are now around 7,000 confirmed cases a day, according to data from Reuters.
More than 12% of Tunisia’s population of 12 million has received at least one coronavirus vaccine dose. This rate is the second highest on the African continent, according to the Oxford University-based Our World in Data.
