Day: March 29, 2020

Minister of Health Abdellatif Mekki, announced on Sunday that the ministry will soon start using new rapid COVID-19 testing kits, that provide test results for patients in just 10-minutes. “In ten days, over 500,000 new rapid COVID-19 testing kits will be available in Tunisia,” Mekki told Tunisian private radio Ifm, adding that the new rapid testing kit is “of high precision and internationally certified, and will help speed up the process of testing.” “The rapid testing kits simply requires a pinprick to patient’s finger so that it can take one…

Novation City ” Pôle de Compétitivité de Sousse ” launched on March 17, 2020, the ” SAFE TUNISIA CHALLENGE “, a competition for Start-ups, students, graduates and entrepreneurs working in the field of Technology, innovation or information and whose aim is to counter, slow down or stem the spread of Covid-19 and to manage the crisis caused by the epidemic in Tunisia. “Safe Tunisia” is a national challenge whose mission is to concentrate Tunisia’s potential for innovation and technological skills in order to create synergies that will enable the rapid…

The EU said on Saturday that it would grant 250m euros ($280m) to Tunisia to help fight the deadly new coronavirus and the adverse socio-economic effects of a lockdown. The bloc’s Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi pledged the aid in a telephone call with Tunisia’s Foreign Minister Noureddine Erray, according to a joint statement issued by the EU delegation in Tunis and the ministry, Reuters reported. Tunisia has closed schools, universities, cafes and bars, shut its land and maritime borders and suspended international flights to try and slow the spread of the disease. It also banned…