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Tunisia confirms first death from Covid-19
7:48 CAT | 20 Mar 2020
Tunisia has 39 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection
Tunisia has confirmed the first fatal case of Covid-19, a 72 year-old woman who died on Thursday night in hospital after being transferred from her home in the eastern resort city of Sousse.
The health ministry in a statement said she had travelled back to the country from Turkey four days ago and was suffering from other unspecified chronic illnesses.
It said the elderly woman was in self-isolation at her home but her poor health necessitated her transfer to hospital where positive laboratory tests were confirmed.
She died on the same day that Tunisia’s first registered Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital with a clean bill of health. The country recorded its first coronavirus case 18 days ago and now has 39 confirmed cases.
Last week Tunisian officials imposed a mandatory two-weeks of self-quarantine on everyone who recently arrived to the country.
More than 3,000 people are in self-isolation in different parts of Tunisia – a majority of them being travellers who recently arrived in the country and traced contacts of those who tested positive.
The country has closed its airspace and land borders, and has a daily night curfew in place in a bid to control the spread of the virus.
Source: BBC
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