Amman - Sana
The Jordanian authorities decided today to redeploy the army in the cities of the country and impose a comprehensive curfew, starting from midnight on Thursday, for a period of 48 hours, on a weekly basis, after an increase in the number of daily infections with the Coronavirus.
The director of the Crisis Cell at the Jordanian National Center for Crisis Management, Brigadier General Mazen Al-Faraya, said in a press briefing carried by Agence France-Presse that "it was decided to impose a comprehensive curfew in all governorates of Jordan, starting from 21:00 on Thursday evening for a period of 48 hours, and its application will be repeated every week."
Al-Faraya added that "starting tomorrow morning, Wednesday, to ensure the curfew decision, the armed forces will be deployed in all governorates."
Today, 12 deaths were recorded in Jordan, which brought the number of new deaths due to corona to 122, and 1537 new injuries were recorded, bringing the total number of injuries to 19,001 cases.
