The Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry, Khaled Mazen along with a member of the Anti-Coronavirus Supreme Committee carried out a visit to truck drivers and their assistants who are in effect quarantined at the customs headquarters of Ras Ijdir.

It will be reminded that the goods-laden trucks and their drivers and assistants have been stranded on the Libyan-Tunisian border for the last month, and they have been quarantined at the customs headquarters of Ras Ijdir, after Libya’s National Centre For Disease Control took samples for coronavirus testing .

On 16 April, 2020  Tripoli Chamber of Commerce and Industry warned that neither the goods nor their drivers were in ideal conditions isolated on the border crossing – with the goods not stored in proper conditions. It also accused the relevant authorities of ‘‘indifference’’ to the crisis and leaving the drivers’ health and the money of importers ‘‘to the faith of the winds’’. This, it suggested, would lose the confidence of the Libyan private sector in the current Libyan authorities.