Entering Tunisia from Poland (orange zone).
 

Anyone has been in Tunisia recently?


If I go in 4x4 independently, do I have to go thought 7-days
quarantine after entering Tunisia?

Apparently the Tunisian government provides an exception to the 14 day quarantine (or 7 day quarantine if you pay for and pass a COVID test after the first 7 days in quarantine) if you are booked on an organized tour, or have made private arrangements with a guiding firm to take you on a tour.

Otherwise, there's no escape from the quarantine requirement.

For what it's worth, Tunisia did a really good job controlling COVID infections during the first half of the year (only 1,100 infections up to the end of July), but things have gone all to hell in the past month - the infection rate is soaring, with 996 cases reported on one day alone (Sept 21) - that's almost as much as the cumulative total March to July! Worse still, there have been over 5,600 new cases reported in the past two weeks (Sept 8 - 22).

For information about what countries are on the "red list" published by Tunisa (meaning, they won't let you in at all, even with a quarantine period), see this article published 2 days ago: Tunisia Red List Update. It's in French, but you'll be able to figure out the country names easy enough. Be careful how you interpret that list - unless you fly into Tunisia from Poland (unlikely), you'll probably be going through France, which is now a "red zone" (no entry from) country, or Italy, whose status could change at any minute. In other words, the Tunisians might consider the country of your port of departure, rather than what passport you hold, when applying entry restrictions.

My motorcycle is presently in Tunis - I left it there in early April when I flew out on a repatriation flight. I very much want to get back to Tunisia to pick it up and resume my riding (either in Tunisia or elsewhere), but I don't think now is the time to go - sadly, COVID is out of control in Tunisia now.

Michael

With 190 dead it is not really "out of control", but likely restrictions will not change until there are less cases.
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...untry/tunisia/

Based on my experience (spending a month in Tunisia at the beginning of the pandemic, both in quarantine and during the subsequently imposed lockdowns), the current infection rate is out of control by Tunisian standards.

The country did a remarkable job of keeping infections down up until about the end of July, but recently, the infection rate has soared. I cited this in my post above - almost as many infections in a single day this past week (996) as in the entire period from the start of the pandemic until July (about 1,500).

The death rate always lags the infection rate by about 3 to 5 weeks. It's possible that there might be a lower death ratio in this 'second wave', due to different demographics being infected, or better treatment arising from experience, but I doubt it. As of Sept 25, 207 people have died in Tunisia since the epidemic started... but 16 of those died on Sept 25th! That's kind of scary.

A month ago (mid-August), I was planning to return to Tunisia in mid-September to pick up my bike and resume riding, but now, I'm afraid it won't be prudent to return for quite a while - perhaps not until next year.

I don't know if Tunisia will tighten up restrictions or not. The economic pain the country is feeling is very real - if anything, if things get worse, the government might just say "to hell with it all" and remove all entry restrictions in order to avoid civil unrest due to unemployment arising from entry restrictions. It's a democracy, but it is a young & fragile democracy, and the government can't afford to throw money at the population to allow citizens to 'wait it out' like we are doing in Canada, or (probably) your government is doing in Sweden.

Michael

Very important! Thank you!