AMMAN — The
Ministry of Health announced Wednesday that Jordan recorded
466 new cases of the COVID-19 variant Omicron, with Ministry of Health Secretary-General of Epidemiological
Affairs Adel Al-Belbisi saying that the Omicron caseload has reached
794.
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Also Wednesday, member of the
National Epidemiological Committee Bassam Hijjawi said that the decision to reduce home
quarantine for Omicron patients to less than 10 days was postponed because
there is no scientific evidence that the incubation period for Omicron is less
than for the Delta variant, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
However, Hijjawi also said that the
committee did not find conclusive evidence that Omicron is more dangerous, adding
that it affects younger people more.
According to Minister of Health Firas
Al-Hawari, "the majority of those infected with the new variant are vaccinated
and comes from outside Jordan”; he said that these people showed mild symptoms,
and “none of them required hospitalization”.
Meanwhile, Ammon
News quoted Jordan Food and Drug Administration as saying that Pfizer has not
submitted an accreditation request for it anti-COVID drug Paxlovid, and that
once the drug is received, it will give it priority assessment.
The
US Food and Drug Administration recently granted Pfizer a permit for temporary use of its
first oral COVID-19 virus treatment.
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