Measures to prevent movement outside the affected areas

Tunisia tends to impose a general quarantine in several cities

Women wearing protective masks in a Tunis market.

EPA

The Tunisian authorities announced that they will apply general quarantine measures in cities that witness high rates of the outbreak of the new Corona virus (Covid-19), instead of resorting to a comprehensive quarantine throughout the country.

According to a joint statement by the Ministries of Health, Interior and Local Affairs, quarantine will be accompanied by measures to prevent movement outside the affected areas, and to tighten the wearing of protective masks and close open public places, and all places that do not comply with health protocols will be closed immediately.

Tunisia is witnessing rapid jumps in the number of people infected with the virus, as the daily average of 1000 infections has reached over the last three days, prompting the Ministry of Health to sound the alarm and warn of a more serious epidemic situation within weeks.

The Tunisian government has ruled out returning to a comprehensive quarantine in the country, but instead isolation will be resorted to in the affected areas.

The Ministry of Health approved the rule of 250 injuries per 100 thousand residents in each municipality as a minimum to apply a general quarantine for a period of two weeks.

According to the latest update of the ministry, 17 authorities have applied this epidemiological situation so far.

The Tunisian Ministry of Health is concerned about the exhaustion of public hospitals ’capacity for" Covid-19 "patients, in light of the shortage of beds in resuscitation rooms and the number of doctors.

There are 292 injured people in public hospitals in Tunisia, 76 of whom are in recovery rooms, and 36 are undergoing artificial respiration.

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Injury per 100 thousand residents is the minimum to apply quarantine.

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