Jordan registers 13 COVID-19 related deaths, 798 infections on Friday

13 new deaths and 798 cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were recorded in Jordan on Friday.

With today’s fatalities and infections, the caseload and death toll from the disease have increased to 10,531 and 806,012 respectively, since the outbreak began in March of 2020, according to the Ministry of Health daily brief.

The number of cases that required admission to hospitals today stood at 59, while 64 cases have recovered and been discharged from hospitals.

On the capacity of hospitals in the Kingdom, the brief said that the occupancy rate of isolation beds in the northern region was at 11 per cent, intensive care beds 15 per cent and ventilators 8 per cent.

In the Central region, isolation beds were at an occupancy rate of 15 per cent, ICU beds at 25 per cent and ventilators 9 per cent, it said.

In the south, it added, the occupancy rate of isolation beds reached 6 per cent, ICU beds 13 per cent and ventilators 11 per cent.

It said that 27,414 PCR tests were collected today, bringing the total number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic to 9,531,594, and that the positivity rate today was about 2.91 per cent.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY

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