AMMAN — Member of the
National Committee for Epidemiology Najwa Khoury told
Jordan News that herd
immunity is not the best way to deal with the Omicron variant in Jordan,
contradicting statements made over the past few days by some other health
experts.
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Khoury said that the coronavirus keeps
on replicating itself, assuming new mutations, and therefore, if herd immunity helps
people cope with Omicron, “it may not succeed with other mutations or variants",
stressing that vaccination is the best way to cope with COVID-19 pandemic and
urging citizens to take the vaccine as soon as possible.
Member of the same committee
Bassam Hijjawi was quoted in the media as saying that the Omicron variant was
responsible for 40 percent of COVID-19 infections in the Kingdom over the past
week.
Yet despite its rapid spread, the
World Health Organization said that it had not received any information regarding
possible deaths from Omicron and that the new mutant, which it had classified
as “alarming”.
It also said that since it was first
detected in
South Africa and since Cameroon reported 24 cases in November, infections
with Omicron have been reported in 38 countries, on all continents, so far.
Saturday, the
Ministry of Health announced 15 deaths and 2,387 new infections with the coronavirus in the
Kingdom, bringing the total number of deaths to 12,974 and of infections to
1,097,474.
Meanwhile, Hijjawi was quoted by Al-Ghad
news as saying that the new COVID-19 wave affecting Jordan will be of short
duration.
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