Tunisian President Kais Saied announced his decision to extend the state of emergency imposed across the country until early 2022. The state of emergency in Tunisia was first declared on November 24, 2015 following a bomb attack on a bus of the presidential guards, killing 12 agents.
"President Saied decided to extend the state of emergency in the entire territory of the republic for a period of six months, starting from July 24, 2021 to January 19, 2022," citing sources of Journal of the Republic of Tunisia (JORT). JORT is the official bi-weekly journal published by the country in which all legislative events (laws and decrees), regulations and official statements are published.
World Corona updates: Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (419,470), Mexico (237,626), Peru (195,243), Russia (149,796), the UK (129,330), Italy (127,937), Colombia (118,188), France (111,778) and Argentina (103,359). The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (19,632,443), France (6,015,469), Russia (6,002,303), the UK (5,662,838), Turkey (5,574,997), Argentina (4,827,973), Colombia (4,705,734), Italy (4,307,535), Spain (4,280,429), Germany (3,760,291), Iran (3,645,654) and Indonesia (3,082,410), the CSSE figures showed.
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