AMMAN — The isolation period
of
COVID-19 infected medical personnel and employees of educational
institutions may be shortened, but additional procedures might be taken, said General-Secretary of the
Ministry of Health for Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Adel Al-Balbisi, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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On the other hand, Balbisi said that
currently there is no plan to shorten the quarantine period of other COVID-19 patients,
which currently ranges from seven to 10 days.
Balbisi also said that the return of
Tawjihi students to schools does not pose a danger on them, and expressed his
belief that schools are not a focal point for the transmission of the virus.
The school is a community
environment, and there is need for a protocol for the return to schools, he
said, adding that the decision to postpone the return to school for the second
semester was taken based on the expectation that the pandemic would reach its peak
in mid-February.
Balbisi stressed the need to reach a
balance between the right to health and the right to education, but emphasizing
the need for in-person education for students.
High school students who returned to
school on Tuesday had to follow the health protocol in place, said
Balbisi, adding
that in case the number of cases in any class or school grows by more than 10
percent, the students will revert to distance-education.
There are two theories regarding the
future of the pandemic, Balbisi said. The first suggests that COVID-19 will
become a seasonal disease, allowing for the eventual possibility of herd
immunity, and the second proposes that as long as the virus continues to
spread, new
variants will continue to mutate.
Balbisi also expected the number of
cases to rise to 75,000 with a positivity rate of 30 percent, AmmanNet
reported.
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