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June 28, 2020: Coronavirus – Tebboune makes new decisions
Head of State Abdelmadjid Tebboune made new decisions this Sunday June 28 in the fight against the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) in Algeria.
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June 28, 2020: Benbouzid does not exclude the confinement of localities with high contamination
The number of cases of coronavirus contamination in Algeria continues to increase. Thus, it went from 119 cases registered on June 19 to 283 cases registered yesterday Saturday. This resurgence of contamination worries the country’s top health authorities, to the point of considering reinstating containment in certain wilayas.
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June 28, 2020: Dr Berkani: “We will probably move towards a partial restructuring in certain regions”
“We will probably go towards partial containment in certain regions” said yesterday the member of the scientific committee responsible for monitoring the coronavirus in Algeria, Dr. Mohamed Bekkat Berkani, who denounced the lack of awareness of citizens facing the barrier measures against the virus spread.
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June 27, 2020: Reopening of EU borders – Algeria is in a list of countries which will be admitted
European countries must vote on a proposed list of fifteen states whose travelers will be admitted to the Union on July 1st , which excludes the United States and which includes China conditionally, learned on Friday AFP from diplomatic sources.
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June 27, 2020: The Bouchebka border crossing reopens in the absence of Algerian passengers
On the occasion of the reopening of the Tunisian borders after several months of closure due to the exceptional health situation linked to the spread of COVID-19, the Tunisian-Algerian border crossing from Bouchebka in the governorate of Kasserine has just reopened its doors this Saturday 27 June 2020 to welcome passengers from and to Algeria. However, the effective resumption of activities at the said border crossing has still not taken place due to the absence of Tunisian and Algerian passengers, reports Mosaïque Fm.
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June 27, 2020: Three sub-Saharans tested positive for Coronavirus in Kasserine
The regional director of health in Kasserine, Dr Abdelghani Chaabani announced, Friday, June 26, 2020, the results of 14 samples analyzed at Farhat Hached Hospital in Sousse, including three positive cases revealing the infection of three Guinean nationals by the Coronavirus.
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June 27, 2020: Record at Tizi Ouzou – A return to compulsory confinement is not excluded
The state of Tizi Ouzou has set a record of COVID-19 contamination for the first time since the start of the epidemic in Algeria, where statistics indicated the day before yesterday that 43 confirmed cases had been recorded in one day, which is considered a strong indication of the possible reintroduction of quarantine in the State after only two weeks of its lifting.
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June 26, 2020: Increase in cases of coronavirus contamination – Towards targeted containment of epidemic foci
Significant work is being done by epidemiologists, during investigations, to locate all the foci and clusters of confirmed cases of coronavirus or their contacts, to confine these foci, reveals a member of the Scientific Monitoring Committee of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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June 26, 2020: Vigilance faces the specter of a second epidemic wave
In six wilayas of the country, mainly Sétif, Blida and Algiers, the number of reproduction of the new coronavirus is accelerating, putting on alert the health sector whose hospitalized cases are on the rise causing the saturation of these services.
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June 26, 2020: Kasserine – Arrest at the bus station of 5 sub-Saharan foreigners who surreptitiously crossed the Tunisian-Algerian border
The security units of the national security zone of Kasserine succeeded, this Friday morning, in seizing 5 people of Malian, Guinean, Ivorian and Cameroonian nationality, having crossed the Tunisian-Algerian border surreptitiously, according to a security source in the region.
The same source added, in a statement to (APS), that among these Africans is a girl. These foreigners were arrested at the road transport station in Kasserine.
She also said that they had been transferred directly to the region’s compulsory quarantine center, training, training and summer camping center in Al-Sha’abi, as part of the prevention of the spread. of the new “Corona” virus, until their conditions are taken into account.
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June 25, 2020: Increase in contaminations – The DG of the Pasteur Institute of Algeria calls on the population
The increase in COVID-19 contaminations, recorded in recent days in Algeria, was “predictable,” said Thursday June 25, the director general of the Institut Pasteur d’Algérie (IPA), Dr Fawzi Derrar, in a press statement. The virus is resuming activity around the world, added the specialist.
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June 25, 2020: Algeria-Tunisia frontier/Kasserine: A Syrian elderly and a young Guinean man have been infected with the new Coronavirus
The results of laboratory analyzes carried out at the reference laboratory of Farhat Hashad Hospital in Sousse on 15 specimens checked Thursday evening belonging to African and Syrian citizens – having recently crossed the Tunisian-Algerian border surreptitiously and subjected to compulsory quarantine at the center training, summer and camping in Al-Shaanbi in the province of Kasserine- revealed that two people are infected with Coronavirus. One is a senior Syrian and the other is a young Guinean, according to regional health director Abdel-Ghani Al-Shaabani.
And Al-Shaabani said in a statement that an ambulance and a specialized health team were allocated to secure the transfer of the mentioned patients to the isolation center in the governorate of Monastir for treatment, adding that the results of the analysis of the rest of the samples were negative
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June 24, 2020: Coronavirus Ghardaïa – Prohibition of all kinds of gatherings
The wali of Ghardaïa announced this Wednesday, in a press release, the prohibition of all kinds of gatherings, particularly of a festive nature, as part of preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.
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June 24, 2020: Kef/COVID-19, A new case of local contamination recorded
The Kef governorate has registered a new case of local COVID-19 contamination of a former detainee who was released on Tuesday.
The person was contaminated during his contact with the Guinean patient from COVID-19 detained in the civilian prison of Kef, after his arrest in Jendouba, for having illegally crossed the Tunisian-Algerian border, reported the Regional Director of Health, Tarek Rajhi, to TAP news agency on Wednesday.
The results of the 238 tests carried out on all the prisoners and the prison officers of the civil prison of Kef are negative, ensures the same source.
The former detainee was transferred to the mandatory Monastir confinement center for medical treatment, he added.
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June 23, 2020: Ministerial reshuffle – The composition of the new Djerad’s government
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune proceeded, on Tuesday, June 23, to a cabinet reshuffle which affected several ministerial departments including Finance and Energy. Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs and Justice were not affected. Below is the composition of the new government.
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June 23, 2020: Ministerial reshuffle – The main portfolios concerned
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune operated a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, June 23, which affected six major portfolios in particular: Finance, Energy, Higher Education, Agriculture, Transport and Tourism.
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June 23, 2020: Dr Fourar: “The period of deconfinement that the country is experiencing is a bit delicate”
The spokesperson of the Scientific Committee for monitoring the evolution of the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), Djamel Fourar, stressed, Monday in Algiers, the need to follow the evolution of new positive cases for coronavirus and “react quickly” in order to avoid epidemic foci in certain wilayas.
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June 23, 2020: Partial opening in Blida – Unconsciousness faced with the danger of a new wave of COVID-19
The first coronavirus outbreak in the country, the province of Blida has now moved out of the red zone. Despite the stability of the epidemiological situation in the region, the danger of a new wave of contamination still remains, particularly with the failure to comply with hygiene and prevention standards.
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June 22, 2020: A member of the Scientific Committee excludes the return to total lockdown
Abdelkrim Touahria, member of the Scientific Committee responsible for monitoring and developing the coronavirus in Algeria, excluded, on Monday, June 22, 2020, when he went on radio channel 1, the possibility of once again imposing containment on the nationwide, indicating that the high number of cases was expected due to non-compliance with preventive measures.
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June 22, 2020: The COVID-19 Head of service in Djelfa dies after being infected
Doctor Mekaoui Atiaa, coordinator of paramedical activities and head of service responsible for monitoring COVID-19 at Colonel Ahmed Bouguerra hospital in Hassi Bahbah, in the province of Djelfa, died Sunday, June 21, of his coronavirus contamination. The head of service COVID-19 would have had complications because of his diabetes and his renal insufficiency, indicates the Arabic-speaking newspaper El Khabar.
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June 22, 2020: COVID-19 – A special commission dispatched to Sétif
The special commission sent to Sétif by the Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform started work on Sunday on the epidemiological situation in this region following the spread of COVID -19, according to a medical source.
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June 22, 2020: Air Algeria begins revalidation of 600,000 tickets
The airline company Air Algérie has started an operation of revalidation of 600,000 tickets, relating to domestic and international flights, having been bought but not consumed because of the suspension of air traffic on March 18th.
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June 21, 2020: Coronavirus – Air Algeria begins its confinement lifting
Air Algeria begins its lockdown lifting, with the reopening of its three main commercial agencies to the public, this Sunday June 21. These are Audin’s in Algiers, Oran and Annaba, in a first step.
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June 21, 2020: The Minister of Health announces “the reduction of hospitalization time”
To ease the pressure on certain hospital services, the national health commission is preparing to announce the reduction in hospitalization time for patients undergoing treatment for COVID-19, said the Algerian Minister of Health, Population and the Hospital Reform during his visit yesterday to Boumerdès.
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June 21, 2020: Kasserine – Samples were collected from those who contacted the “Ivorians” with COVID-19
Saturday evening, the specialized health teams of the governorate of Kasserine carried out 78 samples for the people who interacted and communicated with the four Ivorians living in compulsory quarantine in the city of Kasserine who had been diagnosed carriers of the “COVID-19”, to analyze them and check if they continue to carry the virus or not. This is part of a screening campaign that includes all of the people who contacted and treated the patients mentioned, according to regional health director Abdel-Ghani Al-Shaabani.
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June 21, 2020: After COVID-19 and Kawasaki, Algeria is preparing to fight a new disease
The Algerian Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform has asked that preventive measures be taken to limit the spread of “Tiger Mosquitoes”, saying there are no cases in the country.
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June 20, 2020: The Scientific Committee: Confinement could be reinstated in certain wilayas
The spokesperson for the Scientific Committee for monitoring the evolution of the Coronavirus pandemic, Dr Djamel Fourar does not rule out the reinstatement of containment in certain wilayas in the event of an increase in the number of contamination by the coronavirus (COVID- 19) and non-compliance with preventive health measures, reports national radio on Friday. Dr Fourar indicated that “wilayas will be confined again if necessary even for a short time”.
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June 20, 2020: COVID-19 upsurge: We do not know if it is a second wave (Benbouzid)
The Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform, Abderrahmane Benbouzid, said this Saturday, during a working visit to the province of Boumerdes, that the number of infections by coronavirus was increasing in the around the world and we couldn’t be sure it was a second wave of the virus.
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June 20, 2020: Second wave of coronavirus in Algeria: The Minister of Health speaks
The Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform spoke this Saturday, June 20 during a working visit to the province of Boumerdes, on the possibility of a second wave of contamination in COVID- 19 in Algeria. Abderrahmane Benbouzid said it was still premature to speak of a second wave of coronavirus in the country. He says he can’t say or deny anything about it yet.
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June 19, 2020: The Social Security Fund “CASNOS” exceptionally opens its branches every Saturday from June 20 to October 3, 2020
The National Social Security Fund for Self-Employed Workers (CASNOS) will exceptionally open its agencies across the country every Saturday from June 20 to October 3, 2020, said Friday the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security in a press release.
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June 19, 2020: Deconfinement – Djerad’s new instructions
Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad issued new instructions to members of government and walis on June 16 as part of the second phase of confinement lifting.
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June 19, 2020: Lifting of the obligation to wear a mask in private cars
The second phase of reopening, which entered into force on June 14, 2020, was updated by the Prime Minister, in which he indicated that the wearing of masks in private cars is no longer compulsory.
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