AMMONNEWS - Thirty new infections with the novel the coronavirus (Covid-19), including 28 local cases, were reported on Monday in the Kingdom, bringing the caseload since the outbreak of the pandemic to 1639, the Health Ministry announced.The new infections include 2 people arrived from Saudi Ar

AMMONNEWS - Labor Minister, Nidal Bataineh said all private sector employees must download and activate the «Aman» application and their employers or their authorized representatives must also follow up them.The new amendments and measures aim to activate the plan to deal with pandemics and prot

AMMONNEWS - Minister of State for Media Affairs, Amjad Adaileh, announced that the city of Sahab (Southeast of Amman) will be isolated as 12pm on Tuesday until the epidemiological situation in the city stabilizes."The decision was taken upon the recommendation of the Health Minister and in light

AMMONNEWS - Irbid Health Director, Dr. Riad Sheiab, said no new Covid-19 infections were recorded in the northern governorate until Sunday afternoon.In a press statement to «Petra,» he said all the 900 samples results collected from Saturday evening until this afternoon were negative.The nega

AMMONNEWS - 33 new Covid-19 cases, including 29 local infections, recorded on Sunday

AMMONNEWS - Public and private schools across the Kingdom will begin the new academic year on September 1st as planned, Prime Minister Omar Razzaz announced on Sunday, adding that some schools will open as usual while some will either open partially or use distance education, particularly in isolate

AMMONNEWS - Members of the Teachers’ Syndicate Council and a number of teachers who were arrested have all been released on bail, announced Judge Muhammad Tarawneh on Sunday.The legal advisor for the Teachers’ Syndicate, Bassam Fraihat, told Roya all detainees including the vice president, Nasse

AMMONNEWS - Two or more pre-existing health issues could translate into a 48 percent higher risk of testing positive for the coronavirus, according to a new study published Friday.A body of research has already linked certain health conditions, in particular diabetes, to a higher chance of testi

AMMONNEWS - Interior Minister Salameh Hammad Saturday led top security official on a tour of the Omari and Jaber border crossings to check on the flow of work and measures taken after a rise in coronavirus cases at the border posts.During the inspection tour with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

AMMONNEWS - The Education Ministry on Saturday confirmed that a female student in a vocational school in Amman was infected with the coronavirus (Covid-19).The infection was announced during the Health Ministry's daily briefing on Wednesday, and that epidemiological investigation teams have col

AMMONNEWS - Forty four new infections with the novel the coronavirus (Covid-19), including 29 local cases, were reported on Saturday in the Kingdom, bringing the caseload since the outbreak of the pandemic to 1576, the Health Ministry announced.The new infections include 2 truck drivers, who tes

AMMONNEWS - Health authorities isolated nineteen residential buildings in Amman, including 5 in the Al-Ashrafieh area (eastern Amman), where infections with the coronavirus (Covid-19) were confirmed on Saturday.The buildings were handled and sterilized to prevent the spread of infection in accor

AMMONNEWS - Minister of State for Media Affairs, Amjad Adaileh, said the intention is to impose a full curfew on Friday August 28, in Amman and Zarqa, and in governorates where coronavirus (Covid-19) cases are being recorded in a worrisome and accelerating manner.Adaileh also announced a set of

AMMONNEWS - Jordan registers 16 new COVID-19 cases, including 14 local infections

AMMONNEWS - Normal summer conditions are forecast countrywide, on Thursday, while hot weather are going to prevail in the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, and the port city of Aqaba, the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said in its daily update.Winds will be northwesterly moderate, picking up

AMMONNEWS - His Majesty King Abdullah II said that the great goals are not achieved without diligence.His Majesty, in a tweet, said that: " We get inspired from the noble Prophet’s emigration, the greatest lessons of solidarity, compassion, and patience, great goals are not achieved without dili

AMMONNEWS - Prime Minister, Omar Razzaz, expressed the government's appreciation to the «great and exceptional» efforts made by the epidemiological investigation and health teams in conducting tests to detect Covid-19 infections and track contacts «quickly and efficiently,» as an important link to f

AMMONNEWS - Clear implementation problems and a severe lack of inspectors for food establishments compared to the number in the Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA), have contributed to the food poisoning incident in the Ein Al-Basha district, three weeks ago.The JFDA does only exist in fo

AMMONNEWS - His Majesty King Abdullah has received cables of well wishes from several leaders and senior officials of friendly countries on the occasion of the New Hijri Year.King Abdullah also received cables from senior officials and officers in Jordan and representatives of civil society orga

AMMONNEWS - Minister of State for Media Affairs, Amjad Adaileh, said the government deals with every issue that raises public opinion with absolute transparency, and has the courage to uncover deficiencies and shortcomings - if any - without concealing , "and hold the negligent accountable, whoever

AMMONNEWS - Regions across the Kingdom are expected to spend the coming two days in a sweat as a burst of hot and sunny weather spreads over the entire country with hotter-than-usual temperatures.The Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said the heat on Wednesday and Thursday will be a brief s

AMMONNEWS - Jordan has been ramping up COVID-19 testing over the past few months and managed to double the number of daily tests at rates well beyond those recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), a top infectious diseases official said on Wednesday.The target set by the WHO is 20,000

AMMONNEWS - Health Minister Saad Jaber on Wednesday announced that 18 workers at the Omari border crossing tested positive for the COVID-19.Those infected will be placed under quarantine in the Dead Sea area and the Prince Hamza hospital in accordance with established protocol.

AMMONNEWS - Minister of Interior, Salama Hammad, has extended the closure of the Jaber Border Crossing with Syria for another week, starting as of tomorrow morning, Thursday.Meanwhile, the minister said the Omari Border Crossing is still open and has not been closed.Employees were asked to s

AMMONNEWS - President of the Audit Bureau, Asim Haddad, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have named the oversight body to independently audit loans and aid provided to the Kingdom.In a press statement to «Petra,» he said the Audit Bureau's accreditation to administer

AMMONNEWS - A royal decree was issued Tuesday appointing Bishr Khassawneh as adviser to His Majesty the King for policies with immediate effect.Another decree appointed Kamal Al Nasser as adviser to the King with immediate effect.A third decree appointed Zeina Touqan as economic adviser at t

AMMONNEWS - Forty new infections with the novel the coronavirus (Covid-19), including 30 local cases, were reported on Tuesday in the Kingdom, bringing the caseload since the outbreak of the pandemic to 1438, the Health Ministry announced.The new infections include 24 cases in Amman, all of whic

AMMONNEWS - Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, said Israel has to stop the annexation and commit to the two-state solution, which guarantees the establishment of the independent Palestinian state with the occupied Jerusalem as its capital on the pre-June 4, 1967 borders, in order to resolve the conflic

AMMONNEWS - A spell of heat is expected to span through most regions of the Kingdom on Tuesday, despite a slight drop in temperatures, the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said in its daily brief.Similar weather conditions are expected to prevail over the next two days, with northwesterly

AMMONNEWS - The Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO) on Tuesday dispatched a third relief plane to Lebanon, in implementation of His Majesty King Abdullah's directives to support the Lebanese people after a massive explosion hit Beirut port two weeks ago.JHCO Secretary-General Ayman A

AMMONNEWS - Governor of Zarqa Hijazi Assaf on Tuesday decided to isolate three buildings and four apartments in the al-Jabal al-Abyad area after a twenty-year-old man, who lives there, tested positive for the COVID-19.Assaf told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the epidemiological investigati

AMMONNEWS - Two Amman residential buildings were placed under lockdown Tuesday after infections with the coronavirus were confirmed, according to Amman Governor Saad Shehab.He said that the buildings, located in South Marka and Sahab neighbourhoods of the capital, were dealt with and sterilized

AMMONNEWS - A special UN-backed tribunal looking into the 2005 truck bombing assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Tuesday found only one of the four defendants guilty.At a hearing that opened with a moment of silence for the victims of the August 4 port explosion that

AMMONNEWS - His Majesty King Abdullah, accompanied by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, on Monday inaugurated Al Hussein Hospital in Salt, a 350-bed, 11-storey facility.During a tour of the hospital, built at a cost of JD90 million, King Abdullah stressed the importance

AMMONNEWS - Seven residential buildings were placed under lockdown in Amman Monday after coronavirus cases were confirmed, according to Amman Governor Saad Shehabi.He said that the buildings were sterilized and were dealt with according to the health protocol in place, adding that police officer