AMMAN — A senior health official said Saturday that
infections with the new
Omicron variant that are being discovered inside the
Kingdom will be subjected to institutional quarantine at the government's
expense.
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Advisor at the Prime
Ministry for Health Affairs Adel
Balbisi told the Jordan News Agency, Petra, that the institutional quarantine
will be applied to Jordanians coming from seven African countries, which
witnessed the spread of the Omicron variant, and at their own expense,
regardless of the result of the
PCR test at
Queen Alia International Airport.
Government decisions ban entry to non-Jordanians from seven
countries, namely South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nambia, Eswatini
and Botswana, Balbisi noted. He pointed out that in case non-Jordanians from
those countries wish to visit the Kingdom, they are required to be in another
country for 14 days, and to bring a negative PCR test, and the will be retested
at the airport.
He said that only confirmed cases of infection with Omicron
variant will be announced, and no suspected cases of the variant will be
announced until they are confirmed.
On Thursday, the Health Ministry reported the first two
cases of the Omicron variant in the Kingdom; the first infection was for a
citizen coming from South Africa who was directly quarantined in a hotel in
Amman, and the second for a citizen who had no recent travel history outside
the Kingdom and was quarantined in a hotel in Amman as well.
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