AMMAN — Saeed Jaradat, member of the
Ministry of Health’s Epidemiological Committee, said that the number of
infections with the corona virus will increase in the coming period due to the
spread of the Omicron variant.
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Jaradat urged citizens to adhere to
the safety measures, such as wearing masks and keeping physical distancing,
"as well as take the three doses of vaccine, a measure that will protect
you from getting infected or, at least, will relieve symptoms and thus prevent
you from being hospitalized".
He said that the third dose
contributes to raising the immunity, "and we must raise our immunity to
fight the virus, especially that
Omicron has the ability to circumvent the
antibodies", Jaradat told
Jordan News.
What made the epidemiological
situation worse than at the time the Delta wave was sweeping Jordan, he said,
is the spread of the Omicron mutant, "which caused an overlap of these two
mutants and contributed to the increase in the number of infections".
However, he said, Omicron is less severe
than Delta, he said, adding that admission to hospitals in the northern region
reached 26 percent these days while in the central region it reached 35 percent,
and “the number of deaths has begun to decrease".
“Usually the Omicron mutant affects those
aged 35 or less, but this does not mean that we should not take all the
necessary precautionary measures, as it may pose a risk to the elderly and
those with chronic diseases," he said.
Najwa Khoury, another member of
the
Epidemiological Committee, told
Jordan News that the
epidemiological situation in Jordan is still under control, despite the fact
the number of cases increased "and are expected to raise even more in the
upcoming days".
Khoury also stressed the need to comply
with all the necessary safety measures "and take the three doses of the
vaccine, as it is the best way for us to eliminating the spread of COVID-19 and,
in particular, of the Omicron mutant".
She said that the epidemiological
situation in Jordan is still under control, as most of the infected cases have
mild symptoms "and therefore they do not need to be hospitalized".
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