The fitness government in Qatar insists that its most per capita infection rate is mainly due to one factor: detection.
Nearly 600,000 more people were screened Tuesday for the new coronavirus, more than a fifth of the population.
“Because of our low detection threshold, we have known many more asymptomatic and mild instances of the virus than in countries,” Abdullatif al-Khal, president of the National Strategic Group on COVID-19, told the AFP news agency.
But beyond that, Qatar has faced local epidemics that are spreading due to its dependence on foreign personnel living in overcrowded and unsanitary situations while transforming the country for the 2022 World Cup.
The commercial area on the outskirts of the capital, Doha, the site of the first wave of reported cases in the country, was sealed through security forces and flooded with public fitness groups to involve the previous outbreak this year.
Officials also say that strict new hygiene regulations have been introduced into migrant workers’ homes.
Unlike some Gulf countries, which have opted for trawling tests, Doha has focused on teams more vulnerable to infection, adding immigrants and Qataris returning from abroad.
More than one in citizens has already been examined, and at the height of the pandemic, more than one in four of these tests tested positive, according to a laboratory source.
Qatar’s strong gas-rich investment in its fitness formula in recent years, combined with its young population (average age of 31.5 years), has helped keep its mortality rate among the lowest in the world, according to the government and experts.
A total of 194 more people died on Tuesday, only 0.17% of the total number of people inflamed, according to official statistics.
Qatar’s 67-death mortality rate, consisting of millions of people, is the lowest time in the Gulf Cooperation Council with Council (GCC) bloc, with only the United Arab Emirates with 37 million- By contrast, the United States, the country most affected, reported 523 deaths consistent with millions.
“They probably have [one of] the most productive fitness systems, they are well-stocked and well prepared,” said Abdinasir Abubakar of the World Health Organization (WHO) regional for the eastern Mediterranean.
Qatar’s intensive care infrastructure has also shown resilience, some countries where the mortality rate has been much higher.
Intensive care teams in the Gulf state reached 76% of their capacity at the height of the epidemic, the Ministry of Health said.
As of August 20, Qatar’s “R” rate, the number of other people inflamed with an inflamed person, had fallen “well below one and remains stable,” Khal said.
The country has released new infection rates that soared around 20 percent over the following week, however, they are well below the 2,355 reported cases on 30 May.
“Qatar has partially lifted some restrictions and we may be expecting some resurgence,” said WHO Abubakar. “But we expect them to take safe action and accentuate testing, monitoring and case management.”
Physical distance regulations are implemented in workplaces and public spaces, masks are mandatory at points of sale and outdoors for reasons other than exercise.
Distrustful of a new wave of contagion, the government has taken ordinary action, adding public denunciation to Qataris who violate self-quarentene, which is unprecedented in classical society.