Jordan: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Ammon
Jun 21, 2022

Jordan: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response


The Jordanians celebrated Ramadan in solidarity this year, unlike the previous two years when COVID-19 lockdown measures limited family gatherings and banned big iftar feasts. This came as a relief to a population that endured a strict country-wide curfew and closure of all businesses at the outset of the pandemic. Although the lockdown restrictions may have contributed to the low number of COVID-19 cases in Jordan initially, these measures resulted in economic stresses and increased psychological distress in the general population.