14 virus cases, including one local infection, confirmed on Sunday

AMMAN — The Kingdom on Sunday registered 14 new COVID-19 cases, increasing the total number of infections since the outbreak of the pandemic to 1,164, according to Health Minister Saad Jaber.

The new cases included three truck drivers entering Jordan through the Omari border crossing, including a Jordanian, as well as two non-Jordanians who entered at the Karameh border crossing and eight quarantined citizens, five of whom recently returned from the UAE, one from Saudi Arabia and two from Egypt, Jaber noted. 

The minister was speaking during a press conference broadcast live from the Prime Ministry to announce new procedures to deal with COVID-19.

He noted that the Kingdom's single local case on Sunday was a woman who contracted the virus from her infected husband and lives in an already quarantined building in Amman. 

Jaber also announced that epidemiological investigation teams conducted 5,508 random COVID-19 tests nationwide.

The government has recently launched a new smart phone application called "Sehtak" (your health) that provides the latest news about the pandemic, the virus and other health information, he said. 

The minister noted that there is a unit tasked with evaluating a possible reopening of air travel to and from countries with an epidemiological status similar to Jordan's. All citizens of these countries wishing to visit the Kingdom will have to undergo COVID-19 testing, he said.