AMMAN — According to various local media
outlets, Prime Minister
Bisher Al-Khasawneh said Saturday that the government
intends to announce a gradual ending of COVID-19 restrictions within weeks. He
added that this will have a positive impact on most sectors, without providing
further elaboration.
اضافة اعلان
Later on Saturday, minister of State for Media
Affairs and official spokesperson for the government, Faisal Al-Shboul, told
Al-Mamlaka TV that the government through the
National Epidemiological Committee, the Ministry of Health, and relevant institutions, is following up
on the epidemiological situation, and will review the timing and form of
procedures set in place to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic.
Shboul stressed that the pandemic is still present,
and it is necessary to continue to confront it with vaccinations and other
preventive measures.
Regarding the possibility of suspending the
publication of the daily coronavirus brief by the
Ministry of Health, Shboul
said: “No decision has been taken yet.”
On Friday, the head of the Health Committee at the
National Center for Human Rights, Ibrahim Al-Badour, called for publishing
coronavirus statistics on a weekly basis, and questioned the feasibility of
issuing the daily statistic.
Meanwhile, assistant director-general of the
King Hussein Cancer Center, Munther Al-Hawarat, told Ammon News Saturday, that
countries that began to abolish coronavirus restrictions had passed the 70
percent mark of vaccinating their citizens. He said that Jordan should base its
review of procedures on the percentage of citizens who had received the
vaccine.
He said that “beginning to open up while you are
still in the early stage of vaccinations and have not yet reached 50 percent is
risky, and therefore one should be careful.”
Hawarat also said that it is possible to open up
with caution, relying on a base vaccination rate of 45 percent, and stressed
the need to focus on vaccinations.
A government source later confirmed to Ammon News
that no list of measures related to the
COVID-19 epidemic were agreed upon.
The source said that the government began studying canceling
measures related to COVID-19 some time ago, but the mechanism for canceling the
restrictions imposed are still being debated.
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