new deaths and 778 cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were recorded in Jordan on Friday.

With today’s fatalities and infections, the caseload and death toll from the disease have increased to 10,727 and 824,697 respectively, since the outbreak began in March of 2020, according to the Ministry of Health daily brief.

The number of cases that required admission to hospitals today stood at 68, while 59 cases have recovered and been discharged from hospitals.

On the capacity of hospitals in the Kingdom, the brief said that the occupancy rate of isolation beds in the northern region was at 10 per cent, intensive care beds 23 per cent and ventilators 10 per cent.

In the Central region, isolation beds were at an occupancy rate of 12 per cent, ICU beds at 23 per cent and ventilators 8 per cent, it said.

In the south, it added, the occupancy rate of isolation beds reached 9 per cent, ICU beds 10 per cent and ventilators 7 per cent.

It said that 27,327 PCR tests were collected today, bringing the total number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic to 10,101,353, and that the positivity rate today was about 2.85 per cent.