The Minister of Health, Saad Jaber, has announced that the coronavirus caseload in Jordan reached 172, as 19 new cases were reported today.

Among the infected are an Iraqi woman, a Jordanian citizen who returned from Switzerland on March 11, eight people who had direct contact with a COVID-19 patient quarantined in the Military Hospital, of which a Sri Lankan domestic worker, four people who had direct contact with the infected nurse and five people who had attended the wedding party in Irbid. 

During a press briefing this evening, the Minister said: "I hope that Jordanians would not fail the government's great effort to preserve you and the homeland."

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