On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.

[8][6] Model-based simulations for Tunisia indicate that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t was higher than 1.0 from July to October 2020.

[28] On 2 January 2022, one death and five hundred and forty two new cases were reported.

The number of recovered patients increased to 766,677, leaving 114,291 active cases at the end of the month.

The number of recovered patients increased to 950,873, leaving 19,573 active cases at the end of the month.

The number of recovered patients increased to 1,022,000, leaving no active cases at the end of the month.

[40] There were 2,711 new cases in January, 606 in February, 1,071 in March and 844 in April, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1,150,356 in January, 1,150,962 in February, 1,152,033 in March and 1,152,877 in April.

The death toll rose to 29,308 in January, 29,331 in February, 29,363 in March and 29,398.

The number of recovered patients increased to 1,134,769 in January, 1,135,170 in February, 1,136,175 in March and 1,136,957 in April.

[43] On 21 March 2020, the flagship index of the Tunis Stock Exchange finished falling by 7.3% to 6,138.82 points.