Tunis, Jan 13 (TIWN) From Thursday onwards, the Tunisian government will implement a new two-week curfew across the country to curb the spread of the latest wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The restrictions, announced by the prime minister’s office in a statement, take effect from Jan. 13. The following day marks the 11th anniversary of autocrat President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali leaving the country.  Tunisian authorities are struggling to contain the spread of the coronavirus and, at the same time, growing frustration with political uncertainty in the country after President Kais Saied fired his premier and suspended the parliament last July.   Critics dubbed the move a coup, through Saied said he acted to save the country from mismanagement and corruption in earlier administrations.   Saied rescinded a national holiday marking the start of the 2011 uprising, and decreed it would be celebrated on Dec. 17, instead. That’s the day when a fruit seller in 2010 set himself ablaze, sparking the uprising.