AQABA — Director of Health Affairs in Aqaba
Governorate Adnan Abbas has announced that the rate of
vaccinations in Aqaba
has reached 80 percent of the target group of about 100,000 people. This makes
for one of the highest rates among the governorates of the Kingdom.
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Abbas stressed that the number of those who
received the vaccine before Monday reached 126,500 citizens, of whom 76,500
citizens received only the first dose and 50,000 received the second dose.
Abbas added in a statement to
Jordan News that
there is a “great demand” on the vaccine in Aqaba, especially after two new
groups, children over the age of 12 and lactating and pregnant women, were
permitted to get the shot. He said that about 31 children have been vaccinated
with the consent of their parents and expressed his hope that in the coming
days, the vaccination rate in the city of Aqaba will reach 100 percent.
Amin Karim, a citizen who received the second
dose of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, praised the procedures taken by the Aqaba
Governorate Health Directorate. He said that the process of taking the vaccine
was easy, free of any obstacles, and took place in a record time, not exceeding
three minutes for each citizen.
Across
the Kingdom
The vaccination rate reported by Aqaba is much
higher than that in other parts of the country. As of Sunday, a total of
2,788,103 people in Jordan had received the first shot of the vaccine, while a
total of 2,060,638 — around 20 percent of the total population — received both
doses.
On Sunday, there was an increase in the number
of confirmed cases in the country, with a positivity rate of 4.44 percent and
1,061 new confirmed cases.
Aqaba, a coastal tourist hub and part of the
so-called ‘Golden Triangle’ of Jordanian tourism, has conducted an aggressive
vaccination campaign to attract tourists and compensate for the industry’s
losses over the past year.
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