TUNIS, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia received Wednesday 93,600 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, announced Tunisian Ministry of Health in a statement.
"This new batch is part of the COVAX initiative led by the World Health Organization," the ministry said.
Additional batches of vaccines would follow in the coming weeks, said the Minister of Health, Faouzi Mehdi, indicating that 70,000 doses are expected each week from April, 2021.
The ministry aimed to speed up the vaccination process to cover 50 percent of Tunisians before the end of the current year, at a time when vaccination operations are experiencing low participation in the regional centers set up by the authorities.
On March 9, Tunisia received 30,000 doses of the first batch of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19.
Tunisia has so far recorded 242,673 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the death toll from the virus hit 8,429, according to the ministry. Enditem
