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The Tunisian government appealed for help from citizens abroad after authorities said the country’s healthcare system had “collapsed”, amid a rapid increase in the Delta variant which has resulted in an increase in hospitalizations.
“Donate money, medical and paramedical equipment,” the Tunisian embassy in France said in a Facebook post.
A spokesperson for the Tunisian health ministry called the situation in hospitals “catastrophic” – with a severe shortage of hospital beds and oxygen, as well as exhausted medical staff.
The military has been deployed to impose a new lockdown in parts of the country which has only vaccinated 12% of its population.
Tunisians based in Canada gathered outside parliament in Ottawa last week to urge the government to send coronavirus vaccines to Tunisia
Source: BBC
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