AMMAN — Director of the Central
Inspection Department at the
Ministry of Labor Haitham Najdawi said that
employees who get infected with COVID-19 virus, and as a result do not show up at
work, will have the days off deducted from their sick leaves; if they have no
more sick leaves, they will be deducted from their annual leave, and if that is
finished, they will have their salaries deducted.
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Najdawi told
Jordan News that
sick leaves of
COVID-19 patients that are hospitalized are not deducted, but "these
are exceptional cases” as Omicron rarely leads to hospitalization.
This will continue to be the case,
“unless the government issues a new defense order that stipulates a different way
of dealing with the patients,” he added.
The
Minister of State for Media Affairs and government spokesperson, Faisal Al-Shboul, told
Jordan News that
so far the government has no intention on issuing new defense orders related to
the manner of dealing with employees infected with coronavirus.
Member of the
National Committee for Epidemiology Najwa
Khoury told
Jordan News that the committee recommended reducing the
quarantine period for people infected with the coronavirus to five days if they
have no symptoms, and seven days if they exhibit symptoms.
According to her, seven days are enough quarantine, after
which a person may return to work and continue to wear a mask, as they are not
contagious.
Khoury added that most of the cases registered in Jordan are
of people infected with Omicron, “which is known to spread rapidly, but, at the
same time, has minimal symptoms”.
She also said that only a few patients need to hospitalized
“and that shows that the situation is still under control and that we should
know how to coexist
with the virus”.
Khoury
emphasized the need for all individuals to take the vaccine, which has proved
its efficiency in protecting the world from the virus.
“I
highly recommend that people take the third dose, which contributes to raising
one’s immunity, a thing that we need to live, produce, and survive this
pandemic,” she said.
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