Adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Medical Affairs, Brig. Gen. Adel Wahadneh, said that the epidemiological situation in the Kingdom is relatively stable, but with caution.
Wahadneh told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that there are signs of a limited increase in spread of Covid-19 infections, and if there was lack of compliance with health procedures and reluctance to receive vaccinations, especially with the increase in number of opened sectors, it is possible to witness a higher rise in infections, but not in a way that is “similar to previous waves”.
“In 18 months of confronting the Covis-19 pandemic in Jordan, there has been a quantitative and qualitative accumulation of expertise, which, to a large extent, has contributed to the relative stability we are experiencing these days, and work has been done in partnership with all health sectors leveraging the scientific approach to enable the decision-maker and maintain this stability and create a balance in providing medical service with regard to the pandemic and other chronic diseases,” Wahadneh added.
Wahadneh indicated that joint studies between the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Ministry of Digital Economy proved that vaccines available in Jordan are highly effective and safe. “The infection rate after the first jab was 4/10000 and after the second jab 3/10000, and most of these infections were mild and during the development of the immune response.”
He stressed that increasing the frequency of vaccination and redirecting it towards those at higher risk and the younger ones, which is what the health sectors are doing, will have a significant and safe impact within the information received that a good number of those over the age of 60 are not fully vaccinated.
Wahadneh noted that the World Health Organization (WHO) clearly sees the unfairness of the vaccination rate between the rich and poor countries of the world, so the WHO considered that priority is given to the first jab, then the second jab, then the booster jab for the elderly and immunodeficiency after 8-12 months, as raising vaccination rates in the world to equal proportions will reduce the severity of the disease and the emergence of variants.
Source: Jordan News Agency