Jordan on Sunday recorded 2,477 new coronavirus cases, raising the total number of infections to 347,250.
Also, the death toll from the virus climbed to 4,455 as 11 more fatalities were reported.
In this context, Jordan's National Committee for Epidemics (NCE) held an extraordinary session on Sunday to review the developments of the epidemiological situation.
The committee discussed the need to reimpose strict precautionary measures, including increasing curfew hours and shutting down economic institutions and sectors to limit the spread of the new virus variant amid its second wave.
Derar Hasan Balawi, professor and consultant of infectious diseases at the University of Petra, told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that up to 250,000 doses from Chinese vaccine “Sinopharm” and 1 million from “Pfizer-BioNTech” will arrive next month.
He also noted that around 20,000 doses will be imported weekly.
The Jordanian government aims to vaccinate a minimum of 23 percent of the population.
Balawi said that 40,000 so far received jabs among 330,000 who registered on the government e-platform after the mass vaccination campaign kicked off on January 13.
