{"id":8391,"date":"2021-03-17T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T07:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahennews.com\/eng\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2021-03-17T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T07:09:21","slug":"hijjawi-jordan-could-resort-to-total-lockdown-for-at-least-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shahennews.com\/eng\/archives\/8391\/hijjawi-jordan-could-resort-to-total-lockdown-for-at-least-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijjawi \/Jordan could resort to total lockdown for at least one week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A member of the National Committee for Epidemics Bassam Hijjawi told Roya’s Nabd Albalad Tuesday\u00a0that the only way to confront the new outbreak of COVID-19 is\u00a0to vaccinate the largest possible number of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that the Epidemics Committee will hold a meeting Wednesday to provide recommendations to the government in order to reduce the number of coronavirus infections and deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that imposing a total lockdown for at least one week is a possibility for Jordan, stressing this is the ‘worst’ case scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jordan recorded 69 deaths and 8,910 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases since the beginning of the crisis to 495,380.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday, the Head of the National Center for Epidemics and Infectious Diseases, Firas Hawari, said that the COVID-19 curve is taking a very difficult path in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called for the cooperation of citizens to take preventive measures and receive COVID-19 vaccinations to relieve the great pressure on medical personnel, and to prevent the collapse of the health sector in Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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shahennews A member of the National Committee for Epidemics Bassam Hijjawi told Roya’s Nabd Albalad Tuesday\u00a0that the only way to confront the new outbreak of COVID-19 is\u00a0to vaccinate the largest possible number of people. He said that the Epidemics Committee will hold a meeting Wednesday to provide recommendations to the government in order to reduce …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[248,67,249,60],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jordan-news","tag-hijjawi","tag-jordan","tag-lockdown","tag-shahennews-2"],"yoast_head":"\n