Eight people have died from coronavirus in Jordan on Thursday, the Head of the National Center for Forensic, Adnan Abbas, told Roya.

The new deaths involve, five at Prince Hamza Hospital, one at Queen Alia Military Hospital, one in a private hospital in Amman and one at Aydun Military Hospital in Irbid.

The number of COVID-19 deaths in Jordan now totals 69.

Jordan has recorded 1,776 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, 1,765 of which are local cases.