Tunisia reported the highest number of Covid deaths in two months, reporting 20 new deaths in the last 24 hours.
The death toll reached 26,271, the Health Ministry said, adding that the total number of hospitalized cases reached 1,042. According to the ministry, 191 patients are in intensive care and 52 under life support.
Night curfew has been effective in Tunisia since Jan. 13 to counter the rapid spread of the omicron variant.
Deaths spiked in the past few weeks from 3-4 cases per day to more than 13 deaths daily.
Moez Hammami, a specialist in quantitative risk assessment, expected Tunisia to record up to 40 death cases per day, noting that the country is currently witnessing its sixth wave.
Hammami further said that the next ten days will represent the peak in critical and death cases.
