The total number of active coronavirus cases in Jordan has reached 16,691, according to Worldometer on Saturday.

In addition, the number of positive cases since the beginning of the pandemic totaled 22,763 and 5,906 recoveries up until Friday evening.

Jordan has recorded nine new COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, bringing the total number of coronavirus deaths to 175, the director of the National Institute for Forensic Medicine, Adnan Abbas, told Roya.