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Patients on the floor in corridors or lying down, outside and in very hot weather: Tunisia is now overwhelmed by the coronavirus.
So much so that Nissaf ben Alaya, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, spoke of a
"catastrophic"
situation
.
In his televised intervention on Monday evening, Emmanuel Macron also quoted Tunisia by evoking an increase in aid.
On Tuesday, Paris decided to place it on its red list, thus limiting travel between the two countries.
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"
The situation is terrible
," explains Zakaria Bouguira, resuscitator at the Kassab hospital in La Manouba, a western suburb of Tunis.
The average age of our patients is 35 years.
We don't even get calls from people over 45 anymore
. ”
This weekend, Tunisia broke a sad record with 194 deaths in twenty-four hours and exceeded 16,000 deaths for a population of less than 12 million.
According to the American Johns Hopkins University, the country is the
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