World Cup 2022: These are the COVID requirements to enter Qatar

Organisers say guests should present adverse PCR or antigen check to enter nation, present monitoring app at video games.

The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Official Countdown Clock at Doha’s Corniche. Individuals arriving for the event are usually not required to bear quarantine [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

Soccer followers heading to Qatar for the World Cup, on account of begin on November 20, should present a adverse COVID-19 check to enter the nation, organisers have confirmed.

All guests over the age of 18 should additionally obtain Ehteraz, a contact-tracing, government-run cellphone utility that tracks folks’s actions and an infection standing.

“A inexperienced Ehteraz (displaying the person doesn't have a confirmed case of COVID-19) is required to enter any public closed indoor areas,” World Cup organisers stated in an announcement on Thursday.

Earlier than travelling to Qatar, guests getting into the nation might want to present a adverse consequence from a PCR check taken within the 48 hours earlier than arriving or from an official speedy check taken inside 24 hours.

The testing coverage, which applies to guests aged six and older, is “whatever the particular person’s vaccination standing”, the Supreme Committee for Supply & Legacy stated.

Vaccination shouldn't be necessary for the 1.2 million folks anticipated to go to Qatar for the sporting occasion, which ends on December 18. No quarantine is critical.

Speedy antigen assessments taken within the earlier 24 hours earlier than touchdown in Qatar will solely be accepted if they're from official medical centres and never self-administered, organisers stated. No additional assessments are required in Qatar if followers don't develop signs of COVID-19.

Masks have to be worn on public transport, together with the metro system that many followers are anticipated to make use of to get to the eight stadiums in and across the capital, Doha.

Qatar has recorded almost 450,000 confirmed circumstances of COVID-19 and 682 deaths from the illness, in accordance with knowledge gathered since 2020 by Johns Hopkins College in the US.

Greater than 97 % of the inhabitants in Qatar – estimated to be at the least 2.5 million, with about 350,000 of them being Qatari residents – has had at the least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, in accordance with the info.

World Cup organisers stated that anybody who assessments optimistic for COVID-19 whereas within the nation “can be required to isolate in accordance with Ministry of Public Well being tips”.