Day: October 1, 2021

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General

Australian border to reopen for first time in pandemic

Australia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives.

Since March 2020, Australia has had some of the world’s strictest border rules – even banning its own people from leaving the country.

“It’s time to give Australians their lives back,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

People would be eligible to travel when their state’s vaccination rate hit 80 percent, he told a press briefing on Friday.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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General

JVA continues maintenance work on northern water facilities to meet winter demand

The Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) said that maintennace work is underway for water facilities, within its plan during the winter semester.

The JVA cadres are following up on water drainage infrastructure and the cleaning of tunnel and box culverts, the authority said in a statement on Friday.

The statement stressed the importance of such measures that aimed at sustaining all water facilities and ensuring their efficiency and ensuring water flow during the rainy season.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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General

Autumn weather prevails countrywide

Autumn weather is forecast in most parts of the Kingdom, on Friday, while hot conditions are expected in the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea and the port city of Aqaba, the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said in its daily update.

Winds will be northwesterly moderate, the JMD noted.

As for Saturday, similar weather conditions are forecast to prevail. On Sunday a slight drop in temperatures is expected, with brisk winds.

Temperatures in the capital Amman will range between a high of 29 degrees Celsius and a low of 17 degrees.

Highs in the port city of Aqaba will hike up to 35 degrees, while lows will stand at 26 degrees at night.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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Fashion

Expo 2020 chance to showcase Jordanian tourism products, sites – says Tourism minister

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Nayef Al Fayez, on Friday, said that the Jordanian pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 would be a chance to showcase the Kingdom’s tourism products and sites as well.

He told Petra that the ministry is exerting huge efforts to have tourist polarization for Jordan archaeological sites, voicing his appreciation for the United Arab Emirates in this regard.

Organizers said 192 nations will be represented at the event, which will run for 182 days.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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Affairs

UN agency says it needs $800m a year to assist Palestinians

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said it will seek a new injection of funds at an upcoming donor conference, after it withstood years of financial instability.

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York that the organisation needed predictability for its operations in order to implement “three core activities” – education, health and social services

Source: Jordan News Agency

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Health

Jordan registers 9 COVID-19 related deaths, 778 infections on Friday

9 new deaths and 778 cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were recorded in Jordan on Friday.

With today’s fatalities and infections, the caseload and death toll from the disease have increased to 10,727 and 824,697 respectively, since the outbreak began in March of 2020, according to the Ministry of Health daily brief.

The number of cases that required admission to hospitals today stood at 68, while 59 cases have recovered and been discharged from hospitals.

On the capacity of hospitals in the Kingdom, the brief said that the occupancy rate of isolation beds in the northern region was at 10 per cent, intensive care beds 23 per cent and ventilators 10 per cent.

In the Central region, isolation beds were at an occupancy rate of 12 per cent, ICU beds at 23 per cent and ventilators 8 per cent, it said.

In the south, it added, the occupancy rate of isolation beds reached 9 per cent, ICU beds 10 per cent and ventilators 7 per cent.

It said that 27,327 PCR tests were collected today, bringing the total number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic to 10,101,353, and that the positivity rate today was about 2.85 per cent.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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Technology

52,012 students accepted at public universities

A total of 52,012 students have been accepted at public universities for the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022, the Unified Admission Committee (UAC) of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced on Friday.

Meanwhile, the UAC said it will announce the names the students, who have the minimum per cent Tawjihi score and obtain the minimum score required for the desired majors, on its website on Saturday.

Source: Jordan News Agency