Tunisia: cooperating, Covid crisis more serious than the political one

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 27 - Emanuele Gobbi Frattini, AVSI cooperator, who has been responsible for the projects of this NGO in Tunisia for years, is more worried about the health crisis created by Covid than the political situation that has arisen in recent days.

The AVSI works here in support of the madrisolas and in the districts at risk to get the kids off the road.

    "The situation since Sunday has been very tense and delicate, but on the roads at this time it seems to be calmer". '' Icaroselli staged by the population for the entire Sunday night are over - he tells ANSA - It seemed a completely spontaneous popular demonstration even if the Tunisians, surprisingly, took to the streets immediately after the announcement on Facebook of the closure of Parliament by President Saied ''. "After the lockout of almost all the shops yesterday, today some are starting to reopen," he adds, "but the atmosphere is one of waiting for the next political moves. The military deployed since Sunday in defense of Parliament and other institutional buildings have disappeared ''. ''But in the meantime - says Gobbi Frattini - the reality is that people continue to die from Covid. The death rate in the country is among the highest in the world. Measures against pandemic are scarce and not enforced. There is a curfew, which in the weekend is total but the ban is only valid for those traveling by car.

   On foot you can circulate and the premises can remain open until 16 ''

    '' Vaccination - he continues - hardly continues with poor results ''. '' People are tired and nasty from two years of severe economic crisis to which the pandemic has added - just think that in less than two years youth unemployment has reached 41% ''. '' And now political developments are awaited that someone fears may lead to a new dictatorship '' concludes the cooperator.

   (HANDLE).