In Jordan, testing electronic bracelets for quarantine compliance

Electronic bracelets, which are designed to monitor compliance with the two-week quarantine prescribed to individual citizens to reduce the risk of coronavirus infection, began in Jordan. This was announced on July 5 by the representative of the National Epidemiological Committee Nazir Ubeidat on the air of the local al-Mamlaka television channel. Electronic bracelets began to be used on Saturday (for those in the ed.) At home quarantine, he said. He also pointed out that this innovation is necessary as a preventive measure to suppress cases of violation of quarantine security measures. At the same time, the Jordanian television channel also reported, with reference to the head of the crisis center for countering coronavirus Mazen al-Faraya, that the use of bracelets is currently being carried out in test mode. Note, as reported by the news agency, earlier it became known that today in Jordan there are 1,150 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection with 10 deaths from COVID-19 and 902 cured of a new disease.