AMMAN —
Random PCR tests will resume in schools, said Adel Blbeisi, Health Affairs
adviser at the Prime Minister’s office and the country’s COVID-19 czar,
according to a local news outlet.
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Belbeisi appeared to reassure Jordanians that health
officials are closely monitor conditions in schools to prevent a rise in the
COVID-19 cases as a result of overcrowding in schools, which reopened after a
summer break earlier this week.
Commenting on the speculation that more infections
are plausible with the reopening of schools, Belbeisi said on Saturday that it
is not necessary that the numbers would rise, contrary to what many expect.
He said that the epidemiological situation will be
monitored closely in conjunction with the start of the school year.
Bilbeisi, however, urged parents to vaccinate their
children to protect them from infection, and to have the symptoms be minor to
moderate, if infected.
In separate remarks to Al-Mamlaka, Blbeisi said a
batch of seasonal influenza vaccines will arrive in Jordan soon.
He said the batch is in line with a tender floated
by the Ministry of Health to buy 80,000 doses of the seasonal flu vaccine.
On a vaccine for the monkeypox virus, Blbeisi
confirmed that the government and the Ministry of Health have no intention of
buying a vaccine since the disease is nonexistent in Jordan.
He noted that the COVID-19 infections have been on a
decline in the past few weeks. For example, he said, “5,900 cases were recorded
during the 32nd epidemiological week, 4,800 cases during the 33rd
epidemiological week, and 3,900 cases during the 34th epidemiological week”,
which ended last weekend.
He also pointed
out that the positive PCR tests are still at the same level so far, but are
likely to decrease in the coming weeks, indicating that nobody can predict the
exact date of the end of the current COVID-19 wave. He explained that each
COVID-19 wave “usually takes six to eight weeks.”
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