Year: 2022

New restrictions in England to slow the spread of COVID-19 will only be introduced as a last resort, health minister Sajid Javid said, stressing that although hospitalisations were rising, the number of patients in intensive care was stable.

The rapid spread of the Omicron variant across the United Kingdom has sent infections to record highs, with close to 190,000 new cases reported on Friday.

Britain has not brought in new rules for England, which accounts for more than 80 percent of the UK population.

Source: Jordan News Agency

31 new deaths and 872 cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were recorded in Jordan on Saturday.

With today’s fatalities and infections, the caseload and death toll from the disease have increased to 12,684 and 1,064,277 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 75, while 62 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 19 per cent, intensive care beds 37 per cent and ventilators 21 per cent.

In the Central region, isolation beds were at an occupancy rate of 20 per cent, ICU beds at 41 per cent and ventilators 20 per cent, it said.

In the south, it added, the occupancy rate of isolation beds reached 8 per cent, ICU beds 13 per cent and ventilators 13 per cent.

It said that 27,510 PCR tests were collected today, bringing the total number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic to 13,575,729 and that the positivity rate today was about 3.17 per cent.

Source: Jordan News Agency