The Jordanian government has decided to shut down the education system in the northern cities of Jerash and Ajalon following a wave of infections with shigella bacteria, which cause dysentery and shigulosis.
Jordanian health authorities have already acknowledged that they may be required to expand the scope of closing educational institutions.
A spokesman for the Jordanian Ministry of Education said that "schools were closed for disinfection purposes, and students were transferred to distance learning."
At present, the Department of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Health in Amman collects samples from water sources, restaurants and bakeries in Jerash and Ajalon, in order to try to locate the source of the infection of more than 90 people in the bacteria it will detect.
The city of Jerash, Photo: AFP
"14 cases were diagnosed on Saturday," a Jordanian health ministry spokesman told al-Arabiya.
According to him, "the disease is under control, and most of those infected have left the hospitals."
In fact, the Ministry of Health in Amman required a large-scale effort.
While treating 15,207 active patients in Corona, 491 of them in critical condition, they should also take care of dysentery sufferers who have severe symptoms - and of course quickly locate the source of the infection from food or water.
