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Jordan Records Highest Daily Spike In COVID-19 Cases

Muslims take part in Friday prayers at Al Husseini Mosque, amid fears over rising numbers of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Amman, Jordan October 30, 2020.Image Credit: Reuters
Muslims take part in Friday prayers at Al Husseini Mosque, amid fears over rising numbers of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Amman, Jordan October 30, 2020.Image Credit: Reuters
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Jordan Records Highest Daily Spike In COVID-19 Cases

Muslims take part in Friday prayers at Al Husseini Mosque, amid fears over rising numbers of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Amman, Jordan October 30, 2020.Image Credit: Reuters
Muslims take part in Friday prayers at Al Husseini Mosque, amid fears over rising numbers of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Amman, Jordan October 30, 2020.Image Credit: Reuters

Jordan on Monday recorded 5,877 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily spike in the country so far, raising the tally to 81,743.

Up to 3,361 cases were reported in Amman, 623 in Irbid, and 884 in Zarqa. The remaining cases were distributed in other provinces.

Meanwhile, the death toll from the virus climbed to 913 as 47 more fatalities were announced on Monday.

A total of 33,846 PCR tests have been conducted, which is a dramatic increase in daily tests throughout the kingdom.

Last Saturday, the virus claimed the lives of nine doctors, pushing medical professionals to demand a guarantee for their safety, given that they are in direct contact with a big number of infections daily.

For its part, the Jordanian Doctors Syndicate complained against the shortage of cadres in hospital dedicated to treat COVID-19 patients. This caused exhaustion among the health sector staff and widespread infections among doctors and nurses.

Some Jordanian doctors created groups on social media networks to give a glance of the challenges they are facing.

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Lebanon's Caretaker Prime Minister Visits Military Positions in the Country's South

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) arrives with cabinet ministers for a meeting at Benoit Barakat barracks in Tyre, southern Lebanon, 07 December 2024. (EPA)
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) arrives with cabinet ministers for a meeting at Benoit Barakat barracks in Tyre, southern Lebanon, 07 December 2024. (EPA)
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Lebanon's Caretaker Prime Minister Visits Military Positions in the Country's South

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) arrives with cabinet ministers for a meeting at Benoit Barakat barracks in Tyre, southern Lebanon, 07 December 2024. (EPA)
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) arrives with cabinet ministers for a meeting at Benoit Barakat barracks in Tyre, southern Lebanon, 07 December 2024. (EPA)

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has begun a tour of military positions in the country’s south, almost a month after a ceasefire deal that ended the war between Israel and the Hezbollah group that battered the country.
Najib Mikati on Monday was on his first visit to the southern frontlines, where Lebanese soldiers under the US-brokered deal are expected to gradually deploy, with Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops both expected to withdraw by the end of next month, The Associated Press said.
Mikati’s tour comes after the Lebanese government expressed its frustration over ongoing Israeli strikes and overflights in the country.
“We have many tasks ahead of us, the most important being the enemy's (Israel's) withdrawal from all the lands it encroached on during its recent aggression,” he said after meeting with army chief Joseph Aoun in a Lebanese military barracks in the southeastern town of Marjayoun. “Then the army can carry out its tasks in full.”
The Lebanese military for years has relied on financial aid to stay functional, primarily from the United States and other Western countries. Lebanon’s cash-strapped government is hoping that the war’s end and ceasefire deal will bring about more funding to increase the military’s capacity to deploy in the south, where Hezbollah’s armed units were notably present.
Though they were not active combatants, the Lebanese military said that dozens of its soldiers were killed in Israeli strikes on their premises or patrolling convoys in the south. The Israeli army acknowledged some of these attacks.