{"id":70768,"date":"2020-04-19T15:04:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T07:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70768"},"modified":"2020-04-19T15:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T07:08:32","slug":"tunisia-passed-stage-of-danger-in-fight-against-covid-19-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70768","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia &#8220;Passed Stage Of Danger&#8221; In Fight Against COVID-19: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TUNIS, Apr 19 (NNN-TAP) &#8211; Tunisian Minister of Health, Abdellatif Mekki, said that, the number of COVID-19 cases in Tunisia remains moderate, which shows that the country has passed the danger stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The situation would have been better if we were more engaged in general confinement,&#8221; Mekki assured, while speaking on regional radio station of Tatouine, a public radio broadcast from the province of Tataouine in southeastern Tunisia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And yet, we have passed the stage of danger,&#8221; said the Tunisian Minister, stressing the need to respect basic protective measures against the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisian National Security Council decided to extend the nationwide COVID-19 quarantine without specifying the extension period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The government will assume the maximum period for it,&#8221; according to an official statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quarantine was imposed on Mar 20 for a period of two weeks and then extended for two more weeks till Apr 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Friday, Tunisia registered a total of 864 confirmed infections with 37 deaths.&#8211; NNN-TAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS, Apr 19 (NNN-TAP) &#8211; Tunisian Minister of Health, Abdellatif Mekki, said that, the number of COVID-19 cases in Tunisia remains moderate, which shows that the country has passed the danger stage. &#8220;The situation would have been better if we were more engaged in general confinement,&#8221; Mekki assured, while speaking on regional radio station of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":70771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}