Tunisia risks COVID-19 rebound as positivity rate spikes


TUNIS, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia risked a new wave of COVID-19 infections as the positivity rate has risen to 21.75 percent over the past week from about 7 percent at the beginning of June, the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) reported on Wednesday.

"The rebound of infections is mainly due to waning vaccine protection after four months of people's injections as well as their reluctance to receive the third and fourth boosters," TAP quoted Riadh Daghfous, a member of the Tunisian scientific committee for the fight against the coronavirus, as saying.

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