The head of the Ministry of Health of Tunisia, Fawzi Mehdi, was vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. This was reported in a press release from the ministry, RIA Novosti reports.
As told in the department, the minister received the first injection of the vaccine in the suburb of the capital of Tunisia, Aryane. More than 12,000 people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus since the start of a nationwide vaccination campaign in the country, which kicked off on March 13, Mehdi said.
The Tunisian Ministry of Health registered the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in January. The registration of the drug was issued based on an assessment of the results of clinical trials of the vaccine and was carried out under an accelerated procedure.
Sputnik V became the world's first registered vaccine based on the human adenovirus. Currently, the development of Russian scientists is among the ten best vaccine candidates in the list of the World Health Organization (WHO).
