 Hospitals in Tunisia are struggling with staff shortages amid a surge of COVID-19 infections. The daughter of a COVID-19 patient said her mother was moved from a general bed to a wheelchair in the intensive care unit at a hospital in the northern town of Karun. Over the past month, coronavirus numbers in Tunisia have reached their highest daily levels since the beginning of the pandemic, with Karun and three other regions particularly hard hit. Tunisia has reported Africa's highest coronavirus death toll per capita and currently has one of the country's of the continent's highest infection rates. It has registered almost 409,000 confirmed cases and over 14,700 deaths, according to the John Hopkins University.