AMMAN, May 10 (NNN-PETRA) – Jordan will start the second phase of evacuating Jordanian students and citizens from abroad, on May 15, Jordan’s Minister of State for Media Affairs, Amjad Adaileh, said.
Adaileh said, the government would start immediately receiving applications for the second evacuation of Jordanians from abroad, adding that, there will be 16 flights coming from several countries to Jordan as of May 15.
All arriving citizens will be placed in quarantine at the Dead Sea area, Adaileh said in a statement.
The minister added that the evacuation of the first group of around 3,000 Jordanians from abroad had been completed.
Jordan’s Health Minister, Saad Jaber, said, a total of 14 new cases were registered in the country on Saturday, increasing the total number of confirmed cases to 522.
The new cases included six drivers coming from neighbouring countries, a European diplomat, who recently arrived in Jordan, and seven people who had contact with a lorry driver in Mafraq, infected with the virus, Jaber said.– NNN-PETRA
