Jordan News UpdatesHealth authorities in the Canadian province of Quebec said Tuesday that 8 Covid-related deaths have been recorded, bringing the death in the province to 11,650 since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The province also recorded 5043 new Covid infections, bringing the caseload to 495,337 in the province, the health authorities said in statement.
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The Ministry of Health announced Tuesday it recorded 32 coronavirus deaths and 3,023 infections across the Kingdom, bringing the death toll from the pandemic to 12,300 and the caseload to 1,043,266.
The positivity rate of PCR tests collected today was 7.09 per cent, according to the daily media brief by the ministry.
It said that the number of currently active cases reached 55,107 cases, with 163 cases admitted to hospitals today and 147 left hospitals. A total of 1,236 cases are still being hospitalized, it said.
The ministry said that the occupancy rate of isolation beds in the northern region was 29 per cent, intensive care beds 47 per cent and respirators 30 per cent.
The occupancy rate of isolation beds in the central region was at 31 per cent, intensive care beds 50 per cent and respirators 26 per cent, it said.
In the southern region, the occupancy rate of isolation beds was 11%, intensive care 17% and respirators 14%, the daily figures showed.
It also said 5,180 Covid-19 patients have recovered, bringing expected total recoveries after the end of the 14-day isolation period to 975,859.
The daily report also showed that the number of those who got the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine reached 4,287,150 and the number of people who got double vaccinated climbed to 3,876,060.
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi received Tuesday Arab Parliament Speaker Adel Assoumi, who is visiting the Kingdom to participate in Arab Parliament’s meetings, which will be held in Amman this week.
The meeting dealt with the distinguished ties between Jordan and the Arab Parliament, Arab issues, and efforts to promote joint Arab action to support Arab issues and interests.
Safadi lauded the Arab Parliament’s efforts in launching a constructive dialogue between Arab and international parliaments, and in defending Arab issues, particularly the Palestinian cause.
He voiced the Kingdom’s pride in hosting the Arab Parliament’s committees meetings scheduled to be held on Thursday in Amman, which was chosen to be the first Arab capital to host the Arab Parliament’s meetings, following directions of the Arab Parliament presidency to hold its meetings in various Arab countries.
Assoumi commended the existing cooperation with Jordan, and the Jordanian Parliament’s key role in the Arab Parliament. He also stressed the importance of Jordan’s efforts, led by His Majesty King Abdullah, to establish security and stability in the region, and to support the process of promoting joint Arab action and serving Arab causes, foremost of which is the Palestinian cause.
The Arab Parliament had started holding its committees’ meetings in the Jordan Lower House of Parliament on Sunday, in preparation for holding its plenary session on Thursday at the Lower House.
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His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday received Arab Parliament Speaker Adel Assoumi at Al Husseiniya Palace.
Assoumi presented to King Abdullah the Leader Medal, the highest honour awarded by the Arab Parliament, in appreciation of His Majesty’s efforts in service of Arab causes.
During the meeting, the King reaffirmed the strong brotherly and deep-rooted ties that unite Jordan with fellow Arab countries, expressing keenness to consolidate them across all fields.
His Majesty also expressed appreciation of the Arab Parliament’s role in supporting Arab causes, particularly the Palestinian cause and Jerusalem, as well as promoting joint Arab action and dialogue between parliaments.
The King pointed to the importance of stepping up efforts to fight terrorism and extremist ideology, which remain a major challenge for the region and the world.
For his part, the Arab Parliament speaker praised His Majesty’s firm stances in defending Arab causes, and his support for efforts to promote joint Arab action and to reach political solutions to regional crises.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Abdul Karim Dughmi and Director of the Office of His Majesty Jafar Hassan attended the meeting.
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The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), in cooperation with relevant ministries and international partners, on Tuesday held a conference on lessons learned from the evidence-based Immigration Policies Development Project, a management system to unify data sources of foreigners residing in the Kingdom, in its first phase.
Interior Minister Mazen Faraya said in opening remarks that based on the ministry’s role to develop its services and systems, and due to its legal jurisdiction on foreigners’ entry to and residence in the Kingdom, and recent regional circumstances, an urgent need emerged for adopting a new management approach of their files, basically depending on migration governance in view of the existence of multiple sources of foreigners’ data, which made it hard to track their records.
Faraya said his ministry, in cooperation with relevant security bodies and ministries, adopted the immigration policies development project to unify data sources in order to arrive at accurate records and figures of foreigners residing in the Kingdom, “so that their numbers can be handled in a systemic statistical method to draw up policies and take evidence-based decisions in a manner to achieve the national interest.”
During the conference, which was organized in cooperation with the ministries of Interior, Labor, Planning and International Cooperation and Health, as well as the Public Security Department, Faraiah commended the Danish government and the ICMPD for their support and contributions to the implementation of the first phase of this national project.
The project’s work team reaffirmed that participatory institutional work among the ministries has led to the formation of a national task force and a steering committee comprising the partner ministries to exchange data and coordinate among them, which led to building a central database for non-Jordanian residents.
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The Ministry of Education on Tuesday launched the “Promoting Positive Learning Environment for All Children” project in cooperation with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
The project aim at providing quality education for children in line with the goal of human resources development by ensuring access and equity for all students.
In the presence of JICA Chief Representative, Chie Miyahara, Minister of Education, Wajih Owais, lauded the partnership between the Ministry and JICA, praising it’s continued support for the educational development in Jordan.
He also underlined JICA’s role in establishing the common goal of providing quality education to all students in Jordan through the preparation of the necessary plans and the design of educational interventions and activities aimed at strengthening the education environment in supporting children.
He said he was looking forward to greater cooperation and partnership in the quest to improve the educational environment.
For her part, Miyahara pointed out that Jordan is distinguished for its high level of statistics in the field of education in the region, but there are challenges such as overcrowding inside classrooms and decreasing in time of study in school that cause many students to drop out of school. These challenges should be addressed to achieve sustainable development goal (SDG), which is to provide education for all and leaving no one behind.
She commended Jordanian government’s efforts to support children who drop out, noting that the review of the Ministry’s Educational Strategic Plan (ESP) in December 2021 was based on the necessary adjustments in providing such support.
She referred to Japan’s pioneering experience in achieving enrolment levels through high-quality education based on creating a comprehensive positive learning environment for all children, including those most vulnerable to drop-outs.
The project aims to create a positive learning environment model to create an enabling environment for children to feel safe and encouraged, including the development of guidelines for school activity for practical use by teachers and school management.
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