What are Qatar’s COVID, travel requirements for World Cup 2022?

Guests now not want a unfavorable COVID take a look at or obtain the Ehteraz app.

Al Thumama Stadium
The FIFA World Cup kicks off on November 20 [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

Soccer followers travelling to Qatar for the World Cup will now not have to current unfavorable COVID assessments and preregister on a authorities app to enter the nation.

The Qatari authorities has cancelled the vast majority of journey restrictions associated to COVID-19 forward of the beginning of the World Cup that kicks off on November 20.

From November 1, travellers now not have to current a unfavorable COVID-19 PCR or Fast Antigen assessments to enter the nation.

Guests getting into Qatar will not be required to preregister on the federal government’s Ehteraz well being software earlier than their arrival.

A inexperienced well being standing on Ehteraz is now required solely to entry the nation’s well being amenities.

A COVID vaccination certificates can be now not required to enter Qatar.

The coming followers, gamers, officers, workers and media are by far the most important inflow of holiday makers seen in Qatar, which has a inhabitants of roughly 2.9 million.

Qatari residents and residents additionally now not have to take a PCR or fast antigen take a look at inside 24 hours of coming back from overseas, the Ministry of Public Well being (MoPH) stated.

The measures cowl all guests arriving from November 1, when Qatar shall be closed to anybody with no Hayya card – the necessary doc issued to gamers, officers, workers, media and ticket holders and their company.

Qatari organisers and soccer’s governing physique, FIFA, have stated they need the occasion to be an indication the world is getting over the devastating pandemic.

However MoPH has beforehand warned that particular measures can be ordered “within the occasion of a worsening pandemic scenario within the nation”, such because the emergence of a threatening new variant.

Gamers and match officers could also be pressured right into a safe “bio-bubble” if COVID circumstances take off once more, with the specter of expulsion from the event for individuals who breach the safe atmosphere, the ministry stated final month.

A requirement to put on masks on public transport was scrapped in October and masks are additionally not obligatory contained in the eight World Cup stadiums.

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