The compulsory vaccination pass, which aims to limit the spread of Covid-19 in the public and private sectors, came into force on Wednesday December 22 in Tunisia despite the contestation of a number of Tunisians and criticism from an international NGO.
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Access to cafes, banks, shopping centers, state establishments is now only allowed to holders of a health pass and a national identity card, AFP noted. Dozens of people demonstrated Tuesday and Wednesday in the center of Tunis against this measure decided by President Kais Saied in October 2021 in order to accelerate the vaccination campaign and limit the spread of the virus.
The presidential decree-law imposes sanctions against any person refusing to obtain a vaccination pass in the public and private sectors.
Tuesday, Amnesty international called on the Tunisian authorities to suspend the application of the presidential decree, judging that the text contains provisions which "
violate
" the rights.
These provisions "
unnecessarily threaten the means of subsistence of Tunisians by inflicting excessively severe sanctions on them in the event of non-compliance,
" lamented the NGO.