People wearing protective face masks walk past shops, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the Old City of Tunis, Tunisia, August 3, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
TUNIS (Reuters) - A senior official in Tunisia's main opposition Ennahda party told Reuters it planned to go ahead with a protest against President Kais Saied on Friday in defiance of a new COVID-19 ban on gatherings.
The government said earlier it was re-imposing a night curfew, banning all gatherings for two weeks and discouraging people from travelling abroad to stop the rapid spread of COVID-19 cases.
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