Thousands of health workers have held a strike in public hospitals across Tunisia demanding improvements in the health system in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Doctors, nurses and technicians gathered outside the health ministry in the capital, Tunis, to call for better working conditions as they continue to tackle the outbreak.

Tunisia has suffered a relatively low level of infections that have resulted in 50 deaths.

This week, it lifted most of the restrictions put in place to combat the spread of the virus.