Jordan News UpdatesQatar’s health authorities Sunday reported it had administered more than 281,000 boosters to the COVID-19 vaccine, as more than 86.2 percent of the population have been vaccinated.
The Ministry of Public Health said that a total of 636 Qataris tested positive for the highly contagious respiratory disease in the last 24 hours, while 192 had recovered and were discharged from hospital.
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The Jordan Restaurants Association (JRA) said the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) did not reject to deferring the due and unpaid installments of the pandemic-hit tourist restaurants to mid-2022, given the Covid-19-related “exceptional” circumstances.
The JRA’s head, Issam Fakhreddin, called on tourist restaurants wishing to postpone their loan installments to submit a written request and a document of inability to repay, as the CBJ will examine the moratorium applications and take the necessary measures accordingly.
In a statement to “Petra” on Sunday, Fakhreddin lauded the CBJ’s “continuous” cooperation and its “remarkable” efforts to help the tourism sector since the beginning of the pandemic until now.
He also commended the gov’t’s financial assistance packages, which had a “remarkable” impact in mitigating the the Covid-19 pandemic-conduced repercussions on Jordan’s restaurant sector.
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The Ministry of Health announced 26 Covid-19 fatalities and 1, 294 new cases were recorded in the Kingdom on Sunday, bringing the death toll to 12,710 and the caseload to 1, 065, 571.
To date, there are currently 28,906 active Covid-19 cases countrywide, according to the media statement issued by the Prime Ministry and the Ministry of Health.
The statement added that the number of patients who were admitted to hospitals today stood at 75, while 75 cases have recovered and discharged.
According to the briefing, the total number of recoveries recorded Sunday, whether at hospitals or at home, stood at 3, 578 bringing the total to 1,023,955 since the outbreak began.
Moreover, the number of Covid-19 patients still receiving treatment at hospitals countrywide has reached 848.
The statement also indicated that occupancy of ICU beds in the northern, central and southern regions, has reached 38%, 38%, and 13%, respectively.
With regard to testing, 29,514 tests were conducted Sunday, 4.38 per cent of which were positive.
Since March 2020, the total number of tests administered has increased to 1,360,5243, the joint statement noted.
The statement also added that the total number of people who received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine has reached 4,376,329 and 3,984,252 have received their second shot.
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The Ministry of Health and Electronic Health Solutions Co (EHS) on Sunday announced a cooperation agreement was inked with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to automate Swaqa Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre (SCRC)’s health center, some 70 kilometers south of Amman.
Under the agreement signed by the Minister of Health, Dr. Firas Hawari, EHS’s CEO, Omar Ayesh, and the ICRC’s Sarah Avrilo, EHS’s “Hakeem” program, the first national initiative of its kind to automate Jordan’s public healthcare sector, will network SCRC’s health center “gradually.”
In remarks following the agreement, Ayesh said SCRC’s automation comes within the EHS’s plans to computerize health sector facilities to increase medical management’s efficiency and effectiveness and raise health care standards provided to citizens to keep pace with international practices.
The agreement to automate SCRC’s health center also aims to ensure that inmates receive an electronic health record to follow up their medical status and history, Ayesh noted, adding that this step will be implemented in all reform and rehabilitation centers in the Kingdom.
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The total number of global COVID-19 deaths has surged to 5.4 million, as of Sunday, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest update, the university revealed that the current global caseload reached around 289.3 million, adding that more than 9.16 billion doses of the coronavirus vaccines were administered.
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A total of 280,000 people have received the booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccines, the Ministry of Health revealed on Sunday.
COVID-19 pointman, Adel Balbisi, told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the increased demand on vaccinations is “promising,” calling on everyone to head to the nearest immunization center and get the jab, which reduces the severity of infection and death rate.
He stressed the need to receive the third booster shot for those who had received the second dose three months earlier to raise their individual immunity to 80 percent, especially against the coronavirus variant, Omicron.
The ministry, he indicated, is conducting tests on a large number of citizens to asses the epidemic curve, and enforce any measures needed to preserve the health of the Jordanian community.
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Health authorities in Canada announced Sunday that 82.76 per cent of the country’s population have been vaccinated with at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, while 76.88 per cent have received two doses.
Canada is implementing its largest mass vaccination program in history, with tens of thousands of Covid-19 vaccines being administered daily across its provinces and territories, the authorities reported a statement.
On the other hand, 2,253,988 people have been infected to date, 1,888,342 of whom have recovered, while the death toll stood at 30,352 since the outbreak of the pandemic, the statement noted.
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The Kingdom’s oil bill went up by 22.9% during the January-October period 2021, the Department of Statistics (DoS) announced on Sunday.
According to the DoS monthly report, Jordan’s oil bill stood at about JD1, 392 million by the end of October 2021, compared to the same 10- month period 2020, which amounted to JD1,133 million.
Crude oil topped the list of Jordan’s oil imports at JD608 million, followed by gasoline at JD337 million, then diesel at JD293 million, while the Kingdom’s imports of petroleum gases amounted to JD129 million, lubricants at JD22 million, and kerosene is at about JD2 million, the DoS figures showed.
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Activities of the Jordanian Trade and Services Exhibition (JTSE), organized by the Jordan Chamber of Commerce (JCC) and the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Commerce (FSCC), is scheduled to start next Tuesday in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The three-day exhibition, which will be held at Damascus Fairground, will be attended by Jordanian companies working in various sectors, particularly trade, information and telecom technology (ITT), according to a JCC statement on Sunday
Jordanian companies participating in the event work in energy, renewable energy, transportation, logistics, tourism, medical tourism, agriculture and machinery, as well as universities and hospitals, the statement added.
JCC head, Nael Kabariti, said the exhibition constitutes an “important” economic dimension to further deepen Jordanian-Syrian commercial relations and sends a message that efforts are being made by the two countries’ economic sector to launch a different phase of commercial partnership to higher levels that meet the two people’s aspirations and interests.
The exhibition reflects Jordanian commercial and service sector’s desire to develop economic and trade relations with Syria and support their “rapid” development that suits capabilities available in the two countries, he pointed out.
Kabariti noted Jordan’s commercial and service sector is “keen to build a new form of economic relations with Syria within mutual benefit and integration.”
Kabariti also pointed to the need to strengthen relations of the economic sector’s institutions, and work jointly to remove the obstacles facing the two countries’ trade, adding that Jordan-Syria trade exchange “is still modest, ” which requires exerting more effort to increase its volume to meet common interests.
Lauding Jordanian-Syrian relations as “deep- rooted,” he highlighted the two brotherly countries’ commonalities, adding that their economic cooperation should reach a “high” level of coordination and exchange of views to serve the “higher” common interests.
Resumption of the Jordanian-Syrian trade relations to its previous status represents a common interest for the two countries’ economies, especially since Syria represents an “important” trade artery for the Kingdom, whether in terms of export, import or transit, just as Jordan represents a gateway for Syrian products and goods to cross safely to the markets of neighboring countries, according to Kabariti.
Value of Jordanian exports to Syria during 10 months of 2021 amounted to JD45 million, compared to JD40 million in imports, foreign trade figures issued by the Department of Statistics showed.
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The number of visitors to the Petra city saw a hike of 118 per cent at the end of 2021 compared to last year, which has seen a decline in tourists traffic due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
A total of 236,088 tourists of all nationalities, including 135,064 non-Arab visitors, 16,026 Arabs 11,615 and 84,776 Jordanians, according to a Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority (PDTRA) statistics.
According to the PDTRA statistics, the city received the majority of its visitors, nearly 150,000 of all nationalities, in the fourth quarter of 2021, which represents an indicator of the tourism sector recovery from impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
PDTRA Chief Commissioner Suleiman Farajat told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) on Sunday that tourists traffic of all nationalities, especially non-Arabs, saw an increase, which benefited owners of businesses and local communities there. “There are strong indications that tourism is resuming its normal form in Petra.”
The continued improvement of the tourism situation is linked to the global epidemiological situation and the mechanism of dealing with it during the coming weeks, Farajat added, expressing hope that growth of tourism traffic to the city would keep increasing.
PDTRA is on the verge of completing several projects that mainly serve the tourism process in the Red Rose City, which, due to the pandemic, has suffered a significant decline in the tourism traffic, many businesses were shut down and more than 80 per cent of its residents were affected.
Source: Jordan News Agency