国际英语资讯:Interview: Tunisia satisfied with Tunisia-China cooperation in fighting COVID-19: health min_时事

国际英语资讯:Interview: Tunisia satisfied with Tunisia-China cooperation in fighting COVID-19: health min

The Chinese medical teams have provided health screening services for more than 5.7 million Tunisian patients, medical treatment for over 880,000 patients in Tunisian hospitals, and 320,000 surgical interventions, he added.

On Tunisia's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the minister said that his country has controlled "the first wave of the spread of the coronavirus."

"Tunisia is among the countries that have recorded a low number of confirmed cases of COVID-19," Mekki said.

On Wednesday, Tunisia reported three new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of the infections in the country to 1,025.

"In order to confront this pandemic, Tunisia took early preventive measures on the health and socio-economic levels," Mekki said.

However, he warned of a possible second wave of the virus' spread in Tunisia.

"Despite the positive results that we have recorded, we must remain wary of the possibility of a second wave, especially after the start of partial lifting of lockdown which allows hundreds of thousands of workers and employees to return to work in the public and private sectors," said Mekki.

Amid the improvement of the situation, Tunisia started on May 4 partial lifting of the lockdown, which includes three stages, from May 4 to 24, from May 24 to June 4, and from June 4 to 14.

On April 29, the Tunisian government listed the sectors involved in the first phase of the partial lifting of lockdown as transportation, health, food, self-employment, artisans and services.