DUBAI: In-school learning in Jordan will be suspended from Friday until further notice, the country’s education minister said.
Complimentary exams for secondary school students however will be held on time, with the exact dates for the tests to be announced sometime next week, chief education official Tayseer Noaimi said in a report from state news agency Petra.
The country reported 1,507 new coronavirus cases overnight, pushing its caseload to 19,000. Most of the confirmed infections came from areas in Amman, Balqa, and Zarqa.
The rise in infections has prompted authorities to impose a nationwide, 48-hour lockdown starting Thursday midnight, and will be a weekly measure until the unprecedented increase in COVID-19 cases has been addressed. The army has been called in to ensure the curfew is adhered to.
Jordan is separately enforcing a partial lockdown during the weekdays, which runs from 1 a.m. until 6 a.m.
Noaimi meanwhile said international examinations for students will be run according to previously announced schedules, but health and safety measures must be observed in testing halls.
Faculty members were also required to be present in schools on a shift system, so they can rotate from home and in school.
Jordan to suspend in-school learning amid rise in coronavirus cases
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Jordan to suspend in-school learning amid rise in coronavirus cases
- The country reported 1,507 new coronavirus cases overnight
Prince Harry calls for aid corridors to be opened in Gaza
DUBAI: Britain’s Prince Harry has called for aid corridors to be opened into Gaza urgently following his visit to Amman, Jordan.
“Everything that I've heard and everything that I've seen, especially from World Central Kitchen, what we heard this morning on the live link, was that the food, the aid corridors need to be opened, that they're currently not,” Prince Harry said in an interview with British news program Channel 4 News.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met children at a refugee camp in Jordan on Wednesday during their visit to Jordan.
“It was really important for us to highlight the incredible work that Jordan does for this region and I think the work has been going on for decades but more so, recently as being a humanitarian hub for the Middle East, especially with what's going on in Gaza and Syria as well,” he added.
Prince Harry and Meghan were invited to visit the country by Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who met them after they arrived in Amman.
“The entire world has spoken up. There is a lot of stuff in the news… What's been happening in that region has been going on for a long time and it drops out of the news. So I think it was a really important time for us to collaborate and come here to shine a light and focus on the very real humanitarian catastrophe that is happening and continues,” he added.
The couple visited the Zaatari refugee camp, where they joined children to play football, and take part in art and music sessions.
“The world should be incredibly grateful for what Jordan is doing and the moral leadership that it's showing for the world right now,” he said.
