Jordan Eases Lockdown as Friday Prayer Allowed on Foot

Published April 19th, 2021 - 09:54 GMT
Friday prayer allowed on foot
Workers suit up in PPE (personal protective equipment) before sterilizing a mosque in Jordan's capital Amman on June 3, 2020. (AFP)
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worshippers are allowed to attend Friday prayer on foot.

The government on Sunday decided to allow worshippers to attend Friday prayer. The Cabinet, during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Bisher Al Khasawneh, discussed the country’s epidemiological updates and decided to allow worshippers movement on foot for an hour to perform Friday prayer in mosques.

The Council of Ministers also approved to automatically renew expired social safety-net health insurance cards until April 30, 2022, without the need to visit issuance offices.

The decision also allowed for the beneficiaries of the social safety net to add their wives and children above six years old, as well as their jobless single daughters, and university-student dependents.

The Cabinet also approved the recommendations of the settlement and conciliation committee related to settling pending cases between 458 companies and taxpayers and the Income and Sales Tax Department.

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This article has been adapted from its original source.

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