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In total, there are three main contributions: (i) CNN-Transformer encoders fusion, which allows to extract and fuse richer features in the encoding phase, which contains: local, global and long-range dependencies features, (ii) Multi-Branches Skip Connection (MBSC) is proposed to extract and fuse richer features from the encoder features then integrate them into the decoder layers, where MBSC blocks extract higher-level features related to the finer details of different infection types, and (iii) a Multi-classes Boundary Aware Cross-Entropy (MBA-CE) Loss function is proposed to deal with fuzzy boundaries, enhance the separability between classes and give more attention to the minority classes. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated using two evaluation scenarios and compared with different baseline and state-of-the-art segmentation architectures for Multi-classes Covid-19 segmentation. The obtained results show that our approach outperforms the comparison methods in both Ground-Glass Opacity (GGO) and Consolidation segmentation. On the other hand, our approach shows consistent performance when the training data is reduced to half, which proves the efficiency of our approach in few-shot learning. In contrast, the performance of the comparison methods drops in this scenario. Moreover, our approach is able to deal with imbalanced data classes. 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