Algiers- Algeria sent, this Thursday, January 27, medical aid to its Tunisian neighbor, consisting of one million doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccines, according to a press release from the Algerian Ministry of Defense (MDN).
“As part of the noble actions of solidarity reflecting the strong historical fraternal relations linking the Algerian and the Tunisian peoples, and in execution of the instructions of the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid TEBBOUNE, one million doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccines were sent, Thursday, January 27, 2022, as a donation by Algeria to Tunisia, on board a military aircraft belonging to the Algerian Air Force, departing from Boufarik Air Base/1st Military Region to Cartage/Tunisia airport, in support of its efforts to combat the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in the country,” the statement read.
Attending the ceremony to receive the donation at Tunis-Carthage airport was the Tunisian Minister of Health Ali Mrabet, the first adviser to the President of the Republic in charge of national security Abderraouf Atallah, and the Algerian ambassador to Tunisia, Azzouz Baalal.
Algeria has also sent, during the current week, humanitarian aid consisting of 108 tons of food and 400,000 doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccine, in stages, to Mali, as part of Algeria’s solidarity with neighboring countries.
The shipment and transport of this humanitarian aid was carried out at the air base of Boufarik (1st Military Region) on board military cargo planes of the Algerian Air Force in the destination of the airport of Bamako in Mali.
This is the first phase of this humanitarian aid, a donation from the Algerian Red Crescent to the Malian Red Crescent, which included the sending of 23 tons of food and 300,000 doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccine.
This surge of solidarity aims to “strengthen the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two brotherly Algerian and Malian peoples,” said the statement of the National Defense Ministry.
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