Qatar Coronavirus Updates – case rates, boosters, statistics
Community cases are steady at 100-120 a day. Hospitalizations are in the 90s now, a slight increase. I spoke with someone in the medical field and they told me that many of the cases were in kids due...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates -- Cases Up, Spreader Events, and Omicron Variant
Community cases in Qatar remain in the 100-150 range a day. Not great, better than most countries, but still too high for my liking. Hospitalizations are up slightly with about 90 people in hospital...
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2021 FIFA Arab Cup
This is one of my few posts not focused on COVID since the pandemic started. Qatar is hosting the Arab Cup (basically teams from the Middle East and North Africa) and a friend of mine managed to get a...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - Slight Increase in Cases but Hospitalizations...
For the last while community cases have been at 140-170 a day, a slight increase from before, and there were two deaths, the only two in the last month or so. Surprisingly hospitalizations are down, 79...
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More Arab Cup, and Omicron appears.
The Government announced four cases of Omicron yesterday but all from people entering the country and who had been undergoing quarantine.That said I expect an announcement shortly as a large-scale...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Driving an Increase in Case Numbers
Got my booster shot of Moderna today! Glad I was able to get that sorted. When I received my previous two doses I was a bit out of it the next day, though it was worse for the second shot. Hopefully I...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - The Omicron Wave is Here
Man, what a difference a week makes. From 200 community cases a day it went to 300, then 500, then 600. And today it was over 1000 community cases in addition to over 600 cases from travelers. In my...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Sweeping the Country
In my last post there were around 1000 community cases in one day. Since then it went to 1600. Then 2000. And now 2500, in one day. The growth in cases is absolutely crazy! Three more people I know...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Wave Continues
Daily community cases continue to climb, 2 days ago it was 2,800, yesterday was 3,000 and today is 3,300. I think today's was a record for the entire pandemic in Qatar, not surprising since Omicron is...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Still Sweeping the Country
Cases continue to climb but more slowly. 2 days ago it was 3500 community cases, and in the last two days around 3800. Is this the peak? Not sure about that, we'll see.Despite the growth in cases...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates -- Cases Steady but Still High
The last three days the community cases have been steady at 3300-3500 a day. Given the number of tests being done the positivity rate is around 10%, quite high and indicates that we're not out of the...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - Wave May Have Peaked
Cases have been slowly declining, from 3300 community cases in a day to 3000 and today 2770. Positive test rate is at around 9%. Hospitalizations are down slightly but there is now more than 100 people...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Subsiding, Restrictions Lifted
Community cases in Qatar are dropping as fast as they were increasing a couple of weeks ago, from 2770 a day six days ago to 1621 today. Recoveries are now way outpacing new cases, over 4000 people...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - At 1000 Cases a Day
The wave continues to abate, Qatar is now at around 1000 community cases a day, and about 4% of tests are coming back positive, down from 10% a while ago. Only 175 people are in hospital now, and 62 in...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - Around 500 a Day and More Lessening of Restrictions
Just a quick post. Yesterday there were 532 community cases and only 114 people are currently in hospital. Unfortunately the deaths lag the hospitalizations and most days 1-2 people are dying still....
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - 300 Cases a Day, Hospitals Back to Normal
Today there were 309 community cases. Hospitalizations are WAY down, and now only 39 people are in hospital, of which 28 are in ICU. At the peak of the Omicron wave over 700 were hospitalized. Looks...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates -- Omicron wave is over
Cases are now back to a level before the Omicron wave, today there were 116 community cases, and it has been under 200 a day for the last week. There is still the odd death, about four this week, but...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates -- Frustratingly Stable, oh and Canada is in the...
Over the last two weeks I watched, waiting for the numbers to steadily drop below 100, maybe even below 50 cases a day, but it didn't happen. On average there are around 120-150 community cases a day...
View ArticleRamadan Kareem!
It's Ramadan, the announcement was made last night. Time for a month of fasting from first light (~4am) until sunset at around 6pm. Spent the last week decaffinating, slowing weaning myself off of...
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A New Mall - the Vendome
[Coronavirus cases are hovering around 100 a day, some days less than a 100, others more. Hospitalizations are under 30 and only one person is in the ICU]So a new mall just had its soft opening...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates - Cases Increasing
Recently got back from Eid Vacation, I'll post about that later. Discouraged to see that cases are rising again in Qatar, I am guessing it's due to those new Omicron variants going around (I think they...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates -- With Relaxed Restrictions Comes More Cases
Qatar has relaxed almost all restrictions now. You do need to show your Ethteraz app to enter places but mask-wearing is not enforced (many people still wear them but it's optional). Things have...
View ArticleQatar Coronavirus Updates -- Masks Restrictions Back in Place
As I expected the Government has put some restrictions back in place. Masks are now required at indoor public places. People were generally good at wearing masks in places like malls anyway but as it...
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Summer Vacation Part 1 - Norway
I just got back from a one month vacation. The timing was good as a Covid wave went through Qatar over the last few weeks (I'm guessing the BA.5 variant) and it is starting to subside now. Cases are...
View ArticleThe Passing of Queen Elizabeth II
So last night it was announced that the Queen had suddenly passed away. I suppose this day was coming, she was 96 after all, but given her mother lived to 101 I kind of hoped she'd have a few more...
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