Coronavirus infections rose in Jordan on Friday after a truck driver residing in Mafraq Governorate, east of Amman, tested positive.
Health Minister Saad Jaber announced on Friday that quarantine centers are being set up on the border, where drivers would stay for 17 days, a period long enough to discover if a person is infected or not.
Activists on social media wondered how the government imposed a 17-day quarantine on students returning from abroad, while similar measures were not applied to truck drivers.
Infections among drivers were first recorded in mid-April.
News has also been circulated that some 245 truck drivers haven’t been tested upon their arrival in Jordan.
Jordan has been preparing to begin lifting measures so that life would return to normal gradually through new government decisions that were announced mid-last week.
The Kingdom recorded 508 cases since its outbreak early March, while nine elderly suffering from chronic diseases have died.
The Jordanian army, in coordination with the security services and the Queen Alia International Airport management, announced on Friday the end of the first evacuation phase of about 3,000 students from abroad.
The first phase began on Tuesday and ended early Friday.
