30.04.2020
Artikel Nummer: 31804
Jordan: Sanitising the city, one street at a time
What was once a road sweeper used to clean the streets of Amman, Jordan, is now a sanitising vehicle helping to keep the city, which covers an area of 1,680 sqkm and is home to over 2 million inhabitants, safer from the coronavirus.
The equipment used for sanitisation and waste management throughout the spread of Covid-19 was part of a fleet of vehicles financed in 2018, inter alia, by a grant from UK and another by the European bank for reconstruction and development (EBRD) for purchases including 75 refuse collection vehicles for use in landfill and solid waste operations in the city.
The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) was the first governmental institution to take action after the spread of the virus, EBRD said. (ben)