ALGIERS- President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, decided, yesterday, Tuesday, April 28th, 2021, to maintain the closure of all land borders and suspension of non-cargo international air and maritime travel due to the sharp increase of contaminations with Covid-19 and its variants.
As such, President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune chaired, Tuesday, a meeting to assess the pandemic situation in Algeria, in which he gave a series of instructions, mainly, on the necessity of conducting an “urgent” epidemiological inquiry on the new variants, intensifying the awareness campaigns and ensuring the respect of preventive measures, the Presidency of the Republic said in a communiqué.
To this end, President Tebboune gave the following guidelines:
– Precise statistics must be provided from each province while taking into consideration the sources of contamination province by province and village by village in order to take decisions based on precise figures and to start an urgent epidemiological inquiry on the new variants in Algeria.
– The awareness campaigns must be intensified and the prevention measures must be respected, in the light of the carelessness that has been recorded so far. The awareness-raising must include all the public spaces and structures, notably the educational establishments, mosques, markets, stores and means of transportation.
– Fines must be rigorously implemented alongside the intensification of the control of the compliance with prevention measures.
– The total closure of land, sea and air borders is maintained and the level of vigilance raised on a daily basis.
– Concerning the national stock of vaccines and the vaccination campaign, President Tebboune ordered to speed up the pace of vaccination nationwide and to immediately implement the project of manufacturing the vaccine “Sputnik V.”
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