AMMAN —
Health authorities will collect random samples from arrivals at all border
crossings and airports to detect any new mutations of the coronavirus, as part
of a package of new epidemiological investigation and surveillance procedures
that will go into force next week, said Secretary-General of the Ministry of
Health for Epidemiological Affairs Adel Balbisi.
اضافة اعلان
According to the
Jordan News Agency, Petra, Balbisi said Wednesday that the new measures also
include integrating coronavirus in a seasonal influenza surveillance system
used in four hospitals and three health centers in the Kingdom to detect the
coronavirus in samples collected periodically to investigate the influenza
virus.
He urged unvaccinated
people to get the shot, saying that immunization against the respiratory
disease prevents severe sickness, and thus hospitalization.
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