Jordan to isolate city near Syria after COVID-19 spike

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Jordan to isolate city near Syria after COVID-19 spike
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Jordan will seal off a city near the Syrian border from Monday following the largest daily rise in four months in coronavirus infections, which ...

People enjoy drinks at a cafe which reopened to the public for the first time since the start of the coronavirus disease restrictions in Amman, Jordan, on Jun 6, 2020. AMMAN: Jordan will seal off a city near the Syrian border from Monday following the largest daily rise in four months in coronavirus infections, which officials say have come mainly from its northern neighbour.

Ramtha will be isolated as of Monday with the authorities re-imposing restrictions on movement in the first such reversal of a provincial area since the authorities eased a nationwide lockdown last June. A Syrian refugee student takes part in a washing hands activity as part of an awareness campaign about coronavirus initiated by OXFAM and UNICEF at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, on Mar 11, 2020. The spread of cases from Syria prompted the kingdom last Wednesday to impose a week-long closure of the Jaber border crossing, a trade artery for Syrian and Lebanese transit goods to the Gulf and Iraq.

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