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Jordan reports 295 COVID Omicron infections

December 26, 2021 at 4:04 pm

Students, wearing protective masks, wait in line on the first day of school in the Jordanian capital Amman amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, on 1 September 2020. [KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images]

Jordanian health authorities have confirmed 295 new cases of COVID Omicron variant, reported Anadolu Agency.

Abdel Bilbeisi, the prime minister’s adviser on containing the COVID-19 pandemic, told the state news agency Petra that the new tally brought to 328 the number of omicron infections detected in the country.

Jordan’s virus tally reached 1,051,421 cases, including 12,444 fatalities.

The omicron strain has been found in some 80 countries since it was identified in November by scientists in South Africa.

The World Health Organization chief warned this week that the omicron variant “was spreading at a rate … not seen with any previous variant” and poses a “very high” global risk.