Jordan is gradually emerging from the Corona crisis and a conditional return to work

Ayman Fadilat-Amman

Jordan is slowly returning to its normal life out of the Corona pandemic with minimal losses ... a return to the work of economic sectors here, and easing of the embargo measures in the southern and northern governorates there, and between them 50% of the public transport sector is back to work, allowing Jordanians to move through their private cars. 

Successive governmental steps for a gradual exit from the crisis, along with important economic decisions, pave the way for a normal return to the work of the industrial and commercial sectors at full capacity, after they currently operate at 60%, in addition to operating government and service institutions to facilitate formal transactions for those sectors. 

The direct reason behind all these steps is the stability of the epidemiological situation in the Hashemite Kingdom for more than 20 days, and the number of cases infected with Corona virus has decreased, which necessitated the easing of the embargo procedures. 

Health controls The
government stipulated for the return of the various sectors to work that provides health controls and electronic transportation permits, and linked the return of the establishments work to participating in social security (a government institution), in order to ensure the health and safety of Jordanians and residents in the Kingdom.

These conditions raised objections among employers, self-employed persons, and small enterprises who work personally in service occupations and do not participate in social security, which prevented the return of sectors of daily workers and owners of professional and service shops to practice their businesses. 

The Minister of State for Information Affairs Amjad Al-Adayleh said in his interview with Al-Jazeera Net that "the package of decisions taken is to relieve citizens, whether in operating economic sectors or transportation or using private cars and public transport, and came within health conditions and special electronic permits, in order to protect what we have all accomplished before this The pandemic. "

Al-Adayleh added that there is a tendency to restore the work of governmental services departments and institutions that require the return of their work to facilitate the operation of economic sectors from the private sector, explaining that there are decisions that do not satisfy everyone, but the national interest requires such decisions.

Financial assistance in
front of the continued state of closing institutions and preventing the return of self-employed and daily workers to their work except within the previous conditions. The government provided financial aid to those whose work was interrupted due to curfew measures, which benefited more than 68 thousand families, through the National Aid Fund, with a total value of 8.7 Millions of dinars (12 million dollars). 

Support continues to reach 200,000 beneficiary families through e-wallets, and the main account management committee for the “Homeland Homeland” fund has transferred 27 million dinars ($ 38 million) to the National Aid Fund account, to begin disbursing emergency cash assistance to these families. 

Reducing the embargo in the
south, the picture appears different, as life returned to normal after the authorities announced the easing of curfews in the four southern governorates (Aqaba, Maan, Tafila, and Karak), in addition to a number of areas in the northern Irbid governorate, and there is an official trend to ease the embargo procedures from other provinces North and east of the Kingdom. 

The measures to ease the ban included the return of work to all economic sectors, free professions, medium and small enterprises, the movement of private cars, the return of official institutions, in addition to a package of facilities.

Economic indicators
The Ministry of Finance announced that it injected liquidity into the Jordanian market at the value of half a billion dinars (700 million dollars) by paying the dues of the private sector, where 150 million dinars will be spent at the end of this month and early next month, so that the private sector can continue the production process Effectiveness and revitalization of the Jordanian economy. 

This comes in response to facing the repercussions of Corona, and an indication of the positive economic measures, and is consistent with the approach aimed at stimulating the economy that the government has adopted since the beginning of this year. 

The most prominent sectors for which financial dues are paid include income and sales tax, in order to transfer them to the accounts of individuals and companies who are entitled to tax payments, dues to contractors, hospitals of the Ministry of Health, the University of Jordan, medical services, the founding king, drug companies and warehouses, and an oil derivative allowance.