Jordan reported on Monday an additional 15 confirmed coronavirus cases, bringing total to 127.
The minister of health in Jordan Saad Jaber said that 2 children were among the newly infected cases.
He also added that a 82-year-old woman, who was diagnosed with the COVID-19 on Sunday, is in good condition.
On March 20, the Jordanian army isolated the capital, Amman, from the rest of the country, as it imposed a closure on its 10 million population in order to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said that “the next might be more difficult.”
It is worth mentioning that, On Wednesday, March 11, WHO declared that the coronavirus, which is spreading around the world, a “global pandemic; however it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.
According to the organization, the number of COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.
“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.
“Now, COVID-19 can be categorized as a pandemic… we have never seen a pandemic spread due to the coronavirus,” Adhanom added.
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