Worrying developments as cases have been slowly creeping up over the last few weeks. In the last couple of days there been more than 100 community transmissions a day, and yesterday one person passed away. Hospitalizations are up into the 60s now (from a low in the 40s) but the number in the ICU is stable at around 11-13.
Unfortunately the Government doesn’t publish age breakdowns
of the cases. Is it mostly among kids
because they’re back in school? Amongst older people for whom the vaccine
effectiveness is starting to lessen? I don’t know.
If the trend continues I expect various restrictions to be
back in place but I’m not sure to what extent. The FIFA Arab Cup starts in Doha
at the end of the month and tens of thousands of fans are expected (especially
from Saudi Arabia) so I doubt the Government will go into lockdowns. The
addition of tourists for the event is not going to help things though and cases
will likely increase further.
Per capita cases are still low compared to most Western
countries but it’s not a good sign heading into the new year.
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