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Tunisia uses robots to tell people to stay indoors during lockdown

Tunisia has turned to robots to help enforce its nationwide lockdown measures as the country continues to battle the global Coronavirus pandemic.

So far, ten people have died of the virus within Tunisia, with more than 300 people confirmed by the government as having been infected, though testing remains scarce.

The P Guard robots, manufactured by local company ENOVA can be operated remotely and come equipped with infrared cameras, which cover the robots surroundings, as well as a thermal camera and a sound and light alarm system.

The robots had initially been intended as surveillance tools, Radhouane Ben Farhat, ENOVA’s commercial director explained, able to operate through either Wifi or 4G at almost any geographic distance from the operator.

“It’s an outdoor robot,” Ben Farhat told The Independent, “It’s designed for difficult to access areas, whether those are in industrial areas, or mountainous or desert terrain,” he said.

It is unclear which public official spotted their potential for policing Tunisia’s lockdown, but their presence upon the streets of the capital have provided Tunis’ locked in residents with a sorely needed source of distraction.

In one vaguely surreal video, which has been widely shared across Tunisian social media, one of the robots can be seen interrogating a man breaking lockdown restrictions.

In the video, the man explains to the robot that he is leaving his house to buy cigarettes, before the operator instructs the transgressor to ‘hurry up!’

According to an Interior Ministry Spokesman, 1,031 individuals have been taken into custody since the nightly twelve hour curfew came into effect in mid March, after just 24 cases of the virus had been recorded.

A further 197 have been detained over flouting the country’s lockdown restrictions, limiting individual's access to public spaces, was introduced a few days later on March 20.

Nevertheless, though instances of the virus remain relatively low, the fragility of the country’s public healthcare system was likely prominent in lawmakers’ minds when deciding to introduce the measures to check its spread. One projection, put together by journalists from the investigative website Inkyfada highlighted both the low number of tests being carried out by the government, going on to suggest that, should its spread continue unabated, the country’s intensive care units risked being overwhelmed by the virus as early as mid April.

Addressing the parliament last Thursday, Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh informed lawmakers that the country efforts to contain the virus’ spread had been commended by the World Health Organisation.

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Actress Ali Wentworth, wife of ABC's George Stephanopoulos, tests positive for coronavirus: 'Pure misery'

Actress and comedian Ali Wentworth, the wife of ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, has tested positive for the coronavirus, she announced on her Instagram account.

"I have tested positive for the coronavirus. I’ve never been sicker. High fever. Horrific body aches. Heavy chest. I’m quarantined from my family," Wentworth wrote in a post to her 185,000 followers.

"This is pure misery," she added with the hashtag #stayhome.

Wentworth, who is also an author and producer, joined her husband's program, "Good Morning America" to describe her situation while under quarantine in her home on Wednesday.

"First of all, thank you for all your well-wishes," Wentworth began before joking. "You know I'm feverish if I'm allowing myself to go on national television with no makeup on."

"What started was I had a real tightness in my chest," the 55-year-old continued. "I was walking my dog, Cooper, and I just felt very, very winded and I assumed, of course, it was because I never work out and I'm out of shape, but it was it was too heavy for that."`

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Stephanopoulos and Wentworth live in New York City and have two teenage daughters.

New York City has become the epicenter of coronavirus in the U.S..

More than 1,300 people have died in the city as a result of the virus, data from Johns Hopkins University shows.

The overall U.S. death toll has surpassed 5,000, according to the school.

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