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AMMAN Eighty-two COVID-19 deaths and 3,565 virus cases were recorded in the Kingdom on Monday, increasing the caseload to 669,300, the government announced.The new fatalities took the Kingdom’s coronavirus death toll to 7,855 according to a joint statement issued by the Prime Ministry and the Ministry of Health.The share of tests returning a positive result, known as ....
US ambassador visits Baqaa Health Centre Visit follows US announcement to resume financial support to UNRWA By JT - Apr 13,2021 - Last updated at Apr 13,2021 US Ambassador to Jordan Henry T. Wooster and UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini visit the Baqaa Health Centre, located north of Amman, on Monday (Photos courtesy of UNRWA) AMMAN US Ambassador to Jordan Henry T. Wooster and the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini on Monday visited the UNRWA Baqaa Health Centre, located north of Amman. The Director of UNRWA Affairs in Jordan Marta Lorenzo and Director General of the Department of Palestinian Affairs Rafiq Khirfan, accompanied them on the visit that comes on the heels of the US announcement last week on the resumption of support to UNRWA, according to a statement from the UN agency. ....
AMMAN The holy month of Ramadan begins on Tuesday in Jordan, Grand Mufti Abdulkarim Khasawneh announced on Monday, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.Khasawneh said that the crescent moon (hilal) of the new lunar month was spotted in Jordan on Monday, which makes Tuesday the first day of Ramadan, during which Muslims observe dawn-to-dusk fasting, Petra reported. ....
IMF chief extends greetings to Jordan on centennial anniversary By JT - Apr 13,2021 - Last updated at Apr 13,2021 AMMAN Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Monday extended greetings to Jordan on the state’s centennial anniversary. “On behalf of the International Monetary Fund, I congratulate His Majesty King Abdullah II and the Jordanian people on the Centenary Anniversary of the founding of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. I also wish them Ramadan Mubarak, an IMF statement quoted her as saying. “I just had a very constructive discussion today with Jordanian Finance Minister Mohamad Al-Ississ and Central Bank of Jordan Governor Ziad Fariz. I commended them on the strong reform progress made under the IMF-supported programme, despite the significant challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic,” she said. ....
AMMAN The value of exports of the Amman Chamber of Commerce (ACC) went down by 19.7 per cent during the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period of 2020, ACC figures showed on Monday.The value of certificates of origin issued by the ACC in the first three months of 2021 to export goods totalled JD151 million compared with JD188 million in the same period of 2020, ....