(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Amman Jan.18 (Petra) -- Border Guards on the northern frontiers received 52 Syrian refugees in the past 24 hours according to an army source on Monday. The source said border guards provided the refugees with the necessary aid before transferring them to refugee camps and shelters.

The Jordanian Royal Medical Services' personnel administered first aid to the ill refugees the source added.

Over the past four years Jordan has been a safe haven for a massive and unprecedented number of Syrian refugees who have settled in the country's northern and central governorates. The spillover effects of the Syrian refugee crisis are taking a heavy toll on the Kingdom's burdened economy and already-limited resources especially on the most vulnerable segments of the population in the northern region where over half of Syrian refugees currently reside.

Jordan Response Plan 2015' (JRP 2015) estimates the total number of Syrian refugees to be around 1.5 million almost 650000 of which are registered as refugees.

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