Since Tuesday in Greece, flights to and from Qatar have been immediately suspended Tuesday and until June 15.
In Qatar, surprising? Several cases of Covid-19 were however detected on a flight connecting Doha to Athens.
And it comes as no surprise: in fact, while the coronavirus is on the decline becoming non-existent in many parts of Europe, the epidemic is booming in several parts of the world, including the Persian Gulf.
And at the moment, Qatar even holds the record for the number of new cases per capita …
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Little has been said about it, but with 62,000 official cases listed, Qatar is in the top of the countries most affected by the epidemic, and even THE country most affected if we consider the number of infections per inhabitant, the graph below. above is meaningful.
In addition, the number of new daily cases does not seem to really want to decrease, remaining between 1500 and 2000, despite the drastic measures taken by the emirate.
On March 9, Qatar announced the closure of all schools and universities until further notice and banned travel to 15 countries. And beware of those who did not respect the rules: lpublic television in qatar publicly denounced 14 nationals who had violated a home quarantine pledge made after their return from abroad. And the country announced the toughest sanctions in the world against people not wearing a mask in public, and up to three years in prison
On the other hand, the death toll remains compared to the surprisingly low number of cases. 45 in total, even for a country of 2 million people, it seems relatively little, even if the curve seems to rise quite quickly.
The explanation? The number of cases is overestimated compared to many other countries. To deal with the virus, the government of Qatar has indeed opted for massive screening. The test is free and the government has agreed to pay the salary of anyone placed in quarantine, as Le Monde explains. For the lucky ones, this phase of isolation takes place even in a luxury hotel …
Do we better test the living in Qatar (which would swell the number of cases)? Or less dead?
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