AMMAN — The Ministry of Health is expected to
issue a study next week revealing the percentage of herd immunity in Jordan,
according to the Adel
Belbeisi, the Ministry of Health’s secretary general for epidemiology and
communicable disease.
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Belbeisi told
Jordan News that
"there is no official percentage for herd immunity till the moment."
"The percentage will be revealed next
week and will be based on a real study that we have conducted," he said, adding
that "we will calculate the number of citizens who got infected with
coronavirus. … The study will also reveal who got vaccinated and who did
not."
Ibrahim Bdour,
former MP and a member of the board of trustees at the National Center for
Human Rights, previously told
Jordan News that “Herd immunity is reached when
70 to 80 percent of Jordan’s population has antibodies against
COVID-19,” he
said.
According to Bdour, information leaked from the
study, which was conducted jointly by the World Health Organization and the
Ministry of Health revealed that 70 to 75 percent of “Jordan’s population or
the tested sample” has COVID-19 antibodies.
“This means that around 70 to 75 percent of
people in Jordan have herd immunity,” he previously said.
Virologist Azmi Mahafza has also previously
stated that the study shows a “76 percent to 80 percent” immunity rate amongst
the population.
However, he indicated that vaccination
operations should continue “as long as a person remains unvaccinated, whether
after the
first of September or otherwise.”
Vaccine-producing companies have to improve their
vaccines so they last as long as possible and provide longer immunity against
the virus.
Mahafza added: “The coming fall season needs
follow-up on the spread of viral diseases, and therefore people with low
immunity need booster doses.”
He pointed out that the world began
vaccination on September 12, and not even a full year has passed since vaccines
have been tested.
"The societal immunity in Jordan is
great" he said, adding that "the number of infections was
significant, in addition to the high number of vaccine recipients, which helped
stabilize the epidemiological situation."
It is worth mentioning that the Minister of
State for Media Affairs Sakher Dudin has previously stated that 1.588 million
people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination in Amman.
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