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.
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