COVID-19 Surge In Tunisia Puts Health Care System In Danger Of Collapse

Published July 29, 2021 at 11:52 AM CDT

Tunisia has confirmed 579,000 cases of COVID-19 and 19,000 deaths.

With high numbers of infections in the country, the health care system is close to collapsing.

Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson speaks with Caroline Nelly Perrot, Tunis bureau chief for Agence France-Presse, about the parliament’s handling of the pandemic.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Tags

Kansas News Service

HPPR News

Kansas foster care monitor called a success in first year with room for improvement

Blaise Mesa

The Division of the Child Advocate was established in October 2021 as an ombudsman's office with special attention to the cases of foster children. The office started investigating complaints last year.
Kansas foster care monitor called a success in first year with room for improvement

Blaise Mesa

The Division of the Child Advocate was established in October 2021 as an ombudsman's office with special attention to the cases of foster children. The office started investigating complaints last year.
Two months after the Keystone's biggest oil spill, residents of a Kansas county wonder what's next

Celia Llopis-Jepsen

Hundreds of workers have been hustling around the clock to recover the oil. Some landowners want more information about the cleanup and about why the pipeline broke.
HPPR News

30 years ago, these Kansas farmers were told to use less water. Here's how they did it

David Condos

Farmers in the Walnut Creek basin have faced strict restrictions on how much they can water their crops since the early 1990s. Those limits have pushed them to change their methods and their mindsets.
Kansas City’s role in making doomsday weapons is a boon for the local economy

Frank Morris

Kansas City is deeply involved in remaking the warheads that stock the U.S. nuclear arsenal. A plant on the southern edge of the city makes most of the non-nuclear parts for nuclear weapons. That plant is expanding rapidly, spreading billions of federal dollars around the metropolitan area.