08/04/2021
📢🇶🇦Posted On: 7 April 2021 06:19 pm Updated On: 7 April 2021 11:37 pm
🇶🇦Qatar announces stricter COVID-19 restrictions amid rising cases
All the restrictions will be effective from 9 April 2021 (Friday), until further notice.
1. WORKPLACE
50% of employees present in the government and private sector
Meetings to be done remotely or not more than 5 persons.
2. RESTAURANTS & CAFES
Dine-in in restaurants & cafes not allowed
Not to allow restaurants and cafes to serve food and drinks in open or closed places, and to allow them to offer those foods and drinks through external orders or deliver them inside the restaurant or cafe.
3. TRANSPORTATION
20% capacity for metro services; stopped on Fridays & Saturday
20% capacity for public transport services; some lines to be stopped; stopped on Fridays & Saturdays
Continuing the reduction of buses to 50% capacity (for people transported by bus)
4. EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING CENTERS
Continuing to allow private educational centers and training centers to provide their services through remote communication programs only.
Closing nurseries.
Continuing to allow individual educational sessions to be held in centers designated for people with special needs while adhering to special requirements set by the Ministry of Public Health.
Driving schools continue to be closed.
5. SPORTS
Individual sports such as walking, jogging and cycling are allowed, while still closing playgrounds and sports equipment in parks, beaches and corniche.
Continuing not to allow the training of sports teams, whether indoors or outdoors, with the exception of preparatory training for local and international tournaments approved by the Ministry of Public Health.
Obtaining prior approval from the Ministry of Public Health to organize local and international sporting events.
6. COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (BUSINESS & LEISURE)
Closing theaters and cinemas.
Closing beauty salons and barbershops, and stopping all their activities, barring home services provided by some men and women beauty salons.
Amusement parks and all entertainment centers continue to be closed.
The continued closure of health clubs and physical training clubs
The stopping of massage services, saunas, steam rooms, whirlpool bath services, and Moroccan and Turkish baths.
The continued closure of all swimming pools and water parks.
Continuing work with the absorptive capacity of commercial complexes (malls) not exceeding (30%), and not allowing children under (16) years old to enter, and closing all chapels and changing rooms in these complexes, with the continued closure of all food courts within the commercial complexes, and allowing these restaurants by serving external orders or delivering them inside the restaurant.
The traditional souq markets continue to operate with a capacity not exceeding (30%), and children under 16 years old are not allowed to enter, with these markets being closed on Friday and Saturday of every week.
The continued operation of wholesale markets with a capacity not exceeding (30%), and children under 16 years old are not allowed to enter
7. BEACHES & PARKS
Gatherings or sitting are not allowed in public parks, beaches, and the corniche. Individual sports such as walking, jogging and cycling are allowed, while still closing playgrounds and sports equipment in those places.
8. MOSQUES
Continuing to open mosques to perform daily duties and Friday prayers, provided that Tarawih prayers are performed during the blessed month of Ramadan in homes, and children under 12 years old are not allowed to enter, while adhering to the precautionary measures set by the Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, with the continued closure of toilets and ablution facilities.
9. SOCIAL GATHERINGS
Preventing social gatherings and visits in closed places in homes and councils, and permitting the presence of a maximum of (5) people in open spaces, including those who have completed doses of the (Covid-19) vaccine.
The continued permission for family members residing in the same house only in winter camps.
Continued failure to hold weddings indoors and outdoors.
10. EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
Postponing all conferences, exhibitions and events.
11. HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
Continuing to stop providing medical services in private health facilities, except in emergency cases, and allowing any of these facilities to provide some of their medical services that can be provided through modern means of communication.
12. BOATS
The continued suspension of the rental services of boats, tourist yachts, and other boats, with the exception of rental services for family members residing in the same house, and owners of boats and personal yachts are obligated, in the event that they are used, that other than the members of the family residing in the same house are not present on board or the presence of (5) people maximum From non-family members, provided that they have completed the doses of the (Covid-19) vaccine.
13. MUSEUMS & LIBRARIES
Closing public museums and libraries.
14. CLEANING & HOSPITALITY SERVICES
Not to allow cleaning and hospitality companies to provide their services during working hours to the establishments contracting with them, to allow the provision of their services with a full capacity outside the working hours of those facilities, and to allow the provision of their services at home by one person only while adhering to the special requirements set by the Ministry of Public Health in coordination with the Ministry trade and Industry.
15. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES
Continuing work to compel all citizens and residents on leaving the house for any reason to wear masks, unless the person is alone while driving the vehicle or with his family.
Continued work to oblige all citizens and residents to activate the (EHTERAZ) application on smartphones when leaving the house for any reason.
Continuing work to oblige all citizens and residents when leaving and moving for any reason that no more than four people are in the vehicle, including the driver of the vehicle, with the exception of family members residing in the same house when leaving and moving in vehicles.
✅Compliance:
In this regard, compliance with health requirements, procedures, precautionary measures and controls determined by the Ministry of Public Health should be taken into account.
✅The Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and other government agencies, each in its respective jurisdiction, shall take the necessary measures in this regard, to ensure compliance with health requirements, procedures, and prescribed precautionary measures.
✅Effectivity of new restrictions:
These decisions shall be effective from 9 April 2021 (Friday), until further notice.
✅Education and travel & return policy
The Council noted the measures that have been taken regarding the adoption of the distance education system, the suspension of student attendance in all public and private universities, schools, and kindergartens, and the continuation of the current travel and return policy to the State of Qatar.
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