Year: 2020

Tunisia reopened shops, businesses, mosques, cafes and hotels after locking down nearly all normal business activity for months. Tunisia entered the crisis with only 500 intensive care beds equipped with ventilators, and the government said at the start of the outbreak the health system would struggle to cope with more than 5, 000 cases. It has added another 100 intensive care beds, including with the construction of a temporary facility at a sports centre in the capital, Tunis, and has improved readiness at public hospitals around the country, a state…

Saida Zemzemi, Environment journalist, won the second prize for the best article on biodiversity on the occasion of World Environment Day. Saida Zemzemi founded the first media institution in the environmental field years ago, where she runs the “Albiaanews” (Environment News) website and magazine, in addition to presenting a radio program to one of the national radio stations. Last year, she won the “Environmental Media” award for the first time in Tunisia, after she published a brochure on oases adapting to climate change. TunsianMonitorOnline

Tunisian authorities in recent days have stopped various attempts by migrants to illegally depart for Europe. During their operations, the authorities also seized cash linked to criminal activity. Tunisian authorities are continuing their efforts to fight emigration towards Europe, with various operations in recent days resulting in dozens of people being intercepted, Infomigrants reports. In one operation, the Tunisian Coast Guard in Zahruni arrested nine young people from Tunis who were trying to reach the Kerkennah Islands by car to then participate in an illegal act of migration, the interior…

The third phase of the national strategy for partially lifting the coronavirus lockdown in Tunisia was started on Thursday, Xinhuanet said In Habib Bourguiba Avenue, the main avenue in the capital Tunis, life is gradually coming back to normal and the street was crowded with masked people. All shops, restaurants, hotels, public administrations and worship places reopened their doors, the same source added. Under the government’s decision, party halls also reopened with 50 percent capacity for the enclosed spaces, and the open spaces can operate at full capacity with hygiene…