Algeria is among the African international locations most affected by the pandemic. – Fateh Guidoum / PPAgency / SIPA
The Algerian authorities selected Sunday night to increase the confinement for 15 days in many of the nation, attributable to a persistent enhance in circumstances of coronavirus contamination in current weeks.
Partial house confinement from eight p.m. to five a.m., in pressure in 29 of the 48 wilayas (prefectures) of the nation, is renewed for 15 days from Tuesday, based on an official assertion.
The federal government has additionally determined to resume “the ban on road traffic, including private vehicles, from and to” these 29 areas, mentioned the Prime Minister’s companies, additionally asserting the renewal in these prefectures of the suspension of transport. city private and non-private throughout weekends.
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Algeria, one of many African international locations most affected by the pandemic
Containment was fully lifted on June 14 within the nation’s different nineteen wilayas.
Based on the newest report from the Scientific Committee for monitoring the evolution of the pandemic, revealed on Sunday, 27,357 circumstances of contamination have been formally recorded in Algeria, together with 1,155 deaths, because the registration of the primary case on February 25.
Algeria, which in current days has damaged a number of every day data of recorded circumstances (675 Friday), is among the African international locations most affected by the pandemic.
Shield healthcare professionals
The Council of Ministers additionally adopted on Sunday a draft ordinance amending and supplementing the Penal Code to higher defend well being professionals towards verbal and bodily assaults, which have grown because the begin of the pandemic. .
Their perpetrators are liable to sentences starting from one yr in jail to life imprisonment, based on a press release from the Council of Ministers revealed by the official APS company. The textual content supplies for a jail sentence starting from one to a few years for “any verbal assault”, from three to 10 years in jail for “any physical assault” and eventually life imprisonment “in the event of the death of the assaulted person. “.
