Day: November 26, 2021

27 new deaths and 4080 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 11,486 and 936,619 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 166, while 125 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 27 per cent, intensive care beds 46 per cent and ventilators 31 per cent.

In the Central region, isolation beds were at an occupancy rate of 24 per cent, ICU beds at 36 per cent and ventilators 16 per cent, it said.

In the south, it added, the occupancy rate of isolation beds reached 13 per cent, ICU beds 18 per cent and ventilators 18 per cent.

It said that 45,658 PCR tests were collected today, bringing the total number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic to 11,985,542, and that the positivity rate today was about 8.94 per cent.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Director of the Irbid Governorate Health Directorate Riyad Al-Shiyyab, on Friday, said that the Princess Basma Public Hospital can receive up to 45 cases.

Al-Shiyyab told Petra that video clips being shared on social media for a patient standing outside the hospital under the pretext of a lack of beds at the hospital, is totally untrue.

He stressed that the health care system at the governorate is working with high efficiency, noting that health services provided to citizens have not affected.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Britain said on Friday that a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa was considered by scientists to be the most significant one yet found and so it needed to ascertain whether or not it made vaccines ineffective.

Defending a ban on flights from South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Eswatini, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that the lesson of COVID was that early action was essential.

The UK Health Security Agency said that the variant – called B.1.1.529 – has a spike protein that was dramatically different to the one in the original coronavirus that COVID-19 vaccines are based on.

Source: Jordan News Agency