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33 Covid-19 deaths, 3,705 infections recorded Friday

The Ministry of Health said Friday that Jordan recorded 33 coronavirus deaths and 3,705 infections, bringing the death toll from the pandemic to 12,251 and the caseload to 1,031,549.According to the ministry’s daily brief, the positivity rate for the d…

The Ministry of Health said Friday that Jordan recorded 33 coronavirus deaths and 3,705 infections, bringing the death toll from the pandemic to 12,251 and the caseload to 1,031,549.

According to the ministry’s daily brief, the positivity rate for the day was at 7.16 per cent.

It said that the number of active cases reached 63,124 with 171 admitted to hospitals today, adding that 185 cases have been discharged. It said that the total number of confirmed cases that are now hospitalized reached 1,279.

The ministry said that 2,974 Covid-19 patients have recovered, bringing the total number of expected recoveries by the end of the 14-day isolation period to 956,274.

It also said that 51,723 PCR tests were conducted today, bringing the total number of swab tests that had been collected since the beginning of the pandemic to 12,994,788.

Some 4,260,993 received the first COVID-19 jab, while 3,849,114 received the two jabs, the brief added.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY