COVID-19: Jordan expatriates and foreign students banned from outbound travel

Jordan has decided to temporarily ban trips abroad for expatriate workers and foreign students studying in Jordan to control any possible outbreak of COVID-19. 4 million of Jordan’s 10 million population are expatriate workers. Several thousand residents go overseas for treatment each year, mostly to the UK, USA, Israel and Dubai. As yet there are no inbound travel restrictions.

Jordan has also decided to suspend school trips abroad and travel of government staff as part of the new measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

But Jordanian citizens are free to travel abroad. Jordanian Health Minister Saad Jaber said that the authorities will intensify monitoring at all land and sea crossings, and is working on securing more and better quarantine sites.