Kuwaiti students help Jordanians in coronavirus crisis

AMMAN: A number of Kuwaiti students enrolled in Jordanian universities have taken part in the initiate “Watan,” launched by the Jordanian doctors association for deployment on the field to face the novel coronavirus. Kuwait’s Ambassador to Jordan, Aziz AlDihani, said in a statement on Tuesday the Kuwaiti students were helping with their Jordanian peers in treatment and epidemic tracing teams.

Samaa Al-Bloushi, a Kuwaiti medicine student, said she had joined three medical teams since registering in the campaign last March. Bloushi delivers medicines to those in need during curfew hours that extended in some recent periods for 12 hours. She had also taken part in tasks by the epidemic tracers, conducting swab tests in a number of Jordanian regions and provinces.

Her peer, Zayed Al-Enezi, has also participated in the infection tracing missions, delivering the samples to a laboratory in the district of Al-Abdali in the Jordanian capital. Another Kuwaiti medicine student, Ibrahim Al-Bzai’, said he had been involved in distribution of medicines in various regions of the kingdom.

Jordan recorded the first coronavirus infection case in early March. In the middle of the month, Amman declared a chain of precautionary measures against the contagion, suspending schools, travel, banning peoples’ gatherings in public and imposing curfew. The government has recently adopted a plan for gradual resumption of regular life including work in public sector as of May 26. Authorities have declared nine deaths from the contagion in addition to 629 infections as of Tuesday. —KUNA