38 new deaths and 4936 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 11,917 and 1,003,428 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 203, while 186 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 28 per cent, intensive care beds 48 per cent and ventilators 34 per cent.
In the Central region, isolation beds were at an occupancy rate of 29 per cent, ICU beds at 43 per cent and ventilators 22 per cent, it said.
In the south, it added, the occupancy rate of isolation beds reached 10 per cent, ICU beds 8 per cent and ventilators 6 per cent.
It said that 48,645 PCR tests were collected today, bringing the total number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic to 12,667,844, and that the positivity rate today was about 10.15 per cent.
Source: Jordan News Agency
