Jordan returns to general isolation measures at the end of the week, with the increase in Corona injuries
Officials said that Jordan will re-impose general isolation measures at the Kingdom’s level on Friday for a period of 48 hours, for the first time in months, amid health officials ’concern that the large increase in cases of Coronavirus infection will lead to more pressure on the health sector. "Huge" in the number of cases, which increased by about ten thousand cases in a little more than a week, bringing the total number of injuries to nearly double since the first case appeared in the country in early March, which represents a shift from what was the case in Jordan, which witnessed one of the fewest Death and injury rates in the Middle East.
Some top officials are striving to avoid wider lockdown measures that the hard-hit economy cannot afford.
The International Monetary Fund expects the economy, which was struggling even before the pandemic, to contract by 6 percent this year, the first since 1990.
The outbreak of the virus forced the authorities to re-close schools to 2 million students after a short-term resumption of studies at the beginning of last month, and also prompted them to impose a strict ban on large public gatherings.
And it deployed thousands of soldiers to implement general isolation measures that begin at midnight.
On Monday, the daily cases of Coronavirus recorded a peak of 1824, bringing the total number of infections to 20,200 people, while the deaths reached 137 deaths.
Officials blamed the initial outbreak of the virus in Jordan on infected truck drivers who were crossing the northern border with Syria, and the authorities tried to control the spread of the virus by imposing curfews to isolate areas experiencing outbreaks in the capital and remote cities.
The Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah II criticized the government for making mistakes in facing the epidemic, and the newly-appointed Prime Minister Bishr Al-Khasawneh ordered on Wednesday to raise the capacity of hospitals in the coming weeks and to intensify checks to detect the virus.
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