18 new deaths and 7861 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 13,785 and 1,614,698 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 128, while 164 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 13 per cent, intensive care beds 29 per cent and ventilators 12 per cent.
In the Central region, isolation beds were at an occupancy rate of 19 per cent, ICU beds at 35 per cent and ventilators 16 per cent, it said.
In the south, it added, the occupancy rate of isolation beds reached 14 per cent, ICU beds 19 per cent and ventilators 12 per cent.
It said that 42,668 PCR tests were collected today, bringing the total number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic to 16,187,673 and that the positivity rate today was about 18.42 per cent.
SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY