AMMAN — The Ministry of Social Development’s
annual report revealed a genuine fragility in its ability to counter the
COVID-19 pandemic despite forming a team for social protection a report
revealed this week, according to Al-Ghad News.
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Minister of Social Development and acting minister
youth, Ayman Mufleh, said at the recent release of the official report, “the
ministry worked to maintain its work and provide its services to the people in
light of the exceptional circumstances the COVID-19 pandemic put us through.”
According to Mufleh, the report is considered a
reference for the ministry’s work to help it set a strategic plan for the
upcoming year.
According to the report, impoverished families did
not receive any of the housing and building services affiliated with the
ministry during the pandemic. The report found that seven indicators for the
ministry’s performance were rated a “zero” for providing no services, while
only four of the ministry’s categories of service were given a score of “one”
in 2020.
Also, thousands of people with disabilities were denied ministry
services during the coronavirus pandemic, while about 10,500 people with
disabilities had access to the ministry’s services in 2019, and 12,000
beneficiaries received those services in 2018.
The number of events, seminars, conferences, and meetings which were
conducted through the ministry also declined by half due to precautionary
measures to curb the spread of the virus.
However, it should be noted that the pandemic
has begun to wane in Jordan. Adel Belbeisi, the Ministry of
Health’s secretary general for epidemiology and communicable disease told
Jordan News on Sunday that soon, people would have
to show vaccination certificates or 72-hour negative PCR tests to enter any
place.
Mohannad Al-Nsour, member of the National Epidemiological
Committee and executive director of the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health
Network, also told
Jordan News that the Kingdom has succeeded in
securing sufficient quantities of COVID-19 vaccines and administering them to
people.
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