Qatar has begun implementing its new COVID-19 quarantine policy for travelers entering the Gulf country as a component of its slow lifting of restrictions on coronaviruses, government communications announced Sunday.
Qatar has begun to allow citizens and permanent citizens to leave the country and return at any time, and for citizens from abroad to return from the country from 1 August.
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The country’s Ministry of Health has compiled a list of countries that it has classified as “low risk”. These are: Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, China, Thailand, Malaysia, New Zealand, Malta, Finland, Hungary, South Korea, Estonia, Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Japan, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Morocco, Poland, France, Australia, Canada, Slovenia, Belgium, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Algeria, Turkey, Iceland, Spain, Croatia and Andorra.
The government said the list of countries would be reviewed every two weeks.