Good news for Qatar 2022 World Cup fans
Qatar announced today that it will cancel the requirement for those wishing to travel to it to have a negative result for a Covid examination, starting from the first of November, that is, 20 days before the start of the Football World Cup in the emirate.
The Qatari Ministry of Health said in a statement that, as of next Tuesday, “it will be cancelled, for all visitors to submit or present a negative PCR or PCR test result to all visitors before traveling to Qatar.”
This is good news for a wide segment of the masses who wish to travel to follow the World Cup matches, especially since the requirement to examine “Covid” could have prevented large numbers of fans from traveling.
The 2022 World Cup, which Qatar will host from November 20 to December 18, will be the first major global sporting event that has been attended by a large crowd since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. It is expected that more than one million fans will flock to the Gulf emirate to attend the matches.
In its statement, the Ministry of Health indicated that it will also cancel, as of next Tuesday, the requirement to “perform a rapid antigen test or a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for citizens and residents after arriving in the State of Qatar.”
Currently, citizens and foreigners alike must undergo one of these two examinations within the 24 hours following their arrival in Qatar.
As of November 1, no foreign tourist will be able to enter Qatar if they do not have a Haya card.
As for the “Ehteraz” application for tracing contacts with people infected with Covid, which all residents of Qatar currently have to download on their phones to be able to enter any closed public place such as metro trains or commercial centers, it will not be mandatory, as of next Tuesday, except in health centers exclusively.
The ministry said that these updates were decided, especially "in light of the continuing decline in the number of cases of Covid-19 virus around the world and in the State of Qatar."
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