{"id":66079,"date":"2020-03-17T09:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66079"},"modified":"2020-03-17T10:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T02:02:28","slug":"jordan-closes-restaurants-to-curb-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66079","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Closes Restaurants To Curb COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AMMAN, Mar 17 (NNN-PETRA) &#8211; Jordan said that, all restaurants will be closed as of Tuesday (today), and it may impose the defence law to give authorities more power to combat the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a press conference in Amman, Minister of State for Media Affairs, Amjad Adaileh said, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Jordan has reached 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the government may find itself in a position to implement the defence law, which is a special law adopted only at times of emergencies. The law grants the government the authority to restrict public gatherings and citizens&#8217; movements, and arrest anyone suspected of undermining national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister added, Jordan imposes compulsory quarantine on all passengers arriving in the country and the quarantined people have been put in five- and four-star hotels in Amman and the Dead Sea area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government, he said, will provide them with all their basic needs at no expense.&#8211; NNN-PETRA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN, Mar 17 (NNN-PETRA) &#8211; Jordan said that, all restaurants will be closed as of Tuesday (today), and it may impose the defence law to give authorities more power to combat the spread of COVID-19. In a press conference in Amman, Minister of State for Media Affairs, Amjad Adaileh said, the number of confirmed cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198,217,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66079"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}