COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia

2020 coronavirus pandemic in Tunisia
Governorates of Tunisia with confirmed cases   Confirmed 1~9   Confirmed 10~99   Confirmed 100~499 As of 10 March 2020
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Tunisia
First outbreak	Italy France Turkey
Index case	Gabès
Arrival date	2 March 2020 (4 years, 10 months and 2 weeks)
Confirmed cases	1,488 (as of 29 July)[1]
Recovered	1,178 (as of 29 July)
Deaths	50 (as of 3 July)
Government website
covid-19.tn

Tunisia confirmed its first case on 2 March 2020, with the victim being a 40-year-old Tunisian man from Gafsa returning from Italy.^[2][3] On 3 July 2020, a total of 1,181 cases of contamination were confirmed, as were 50 deaths and 1,045 people recovered.

Economic consequences

On 18 March 2020, the President of the Tunis Stock Exchange (BVMT) noted a 14.2% drop in the stock market index in Tunisia.^[4]On 21 March 2020, the flagship index of the Tunis Stock Exchange finished falling by 7.3% to 6,138.82 points.^[5]

References

1. "Tunisia". www.worldometers.info. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
2. "Italian returnee confirmed Tunisia's first coronavirus case". The Punch. 2 March 2020.
3. "Gafsa-COVID-19: legal action taken after two cases fail to comply with home-confinement measures". Tunis Afrique Presse. 9 March 2020.
4. "Le président de la Bourse de Tunis recommande des mesures pour sauver l'investissement". Kapitalis (in French). 18 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
5. Zine, Imen (21 March 2020). "Bourse de Tunis: chute hebdomadaire de 7,3% à cause du COVID-19". L'Economiste Maghrébin (in French). Retrieved 24 March 2020.

Other websites

• Media related to COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website Archived 2020-04-02 at the Wayback Machine