Health Ministry Secretary-General, Adel Balbisi, said despite the increase in Covid-19 rate of positive tests, the epidemiological situation in Jordan is still acceptable and under control.
Balbisi told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) in an interview on Wednesday that the increase in the number of daily infections is expected, following the reopening of all sectors and resuming in-class education in schools and universities, indicating that hospitals capacity is the ministry’s top priority.
He added that the occupancy rate of hospitals designated for Covid-19 cases is fair and does not exceed 26 per cent of intensive care beds, 17 per cent of isolation beds, and 10 per cent of ventilator beds, and there are 3,500 isolation beds in these hospitals, 1200 intensive care beds, and 1,000 ventilators.
Regarding the age groups that are infected with the virus, Balbisi explained that 33 per cent of the confirmed cases recorded daily are from the age group between 10 to 17 years old, indicating that this group, amount for about 2 million people, records 620 cases daily, which means that out of every 1000 people 4 get infected with the virus.
He stressed that Jordan will not go through a wave like the previous ones, and that it is expected to record from 2,000 to 3,000 cases per day, referring to a study by the US Johns Hopkins University, which predicted that the Kingdom would not witness a wave like the previous ones, and that it would not record more than 3,000 cases per day.
He said, “We are currently in 42nd and 43rd epidemiological weeks, and we are witnessing an increase in daily infections, but the epidemiological curve is within reasonable and expected rates. We haven’t gone through a wave like the one that happened in 21st and 22nd weeks, in which the infections reached 56,600 cases per week, at a daily rate of 9,000 infections.”
SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY