Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - 300 Cases a Day, Hospitals Back to Normal

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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 ...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - Around 500 a Day and More Lessening of Restrictions

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Just a quick post. Yesterday there were 532 community cases and only 114 people are currently in hospital. Unfortunately the deaths lag the ...
Wednesday, February 02, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - At 1000 Cases a Day

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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...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Subsiding, Restrictions Lifted

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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. Rec...
Friday, January 21, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - Wave May Have Peaked

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Cases have been slowly declining, from 3300 community cases in a day to 3000 and today 2770. Positive test rate is at around 9%. Hospitaliza...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates -- Cases Steady but Still High

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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 aro...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Still Sweeping the Country

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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...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Wave Continues

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 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 ...
Saturday, January 08, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Sweeping the Country

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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 grow...
Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - The Omicron Wave is Here

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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...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - Omicron Driving an Increase in Case Numbers

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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 ne...
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Sunday, December 19, 2021

More Arab Cup, and Omicron appears.

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The Government announced four cases of Omicron yesterday but all from people entering the country and who had been undergoing quarantine. Th...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Qatar Coronavirus Updates - Slight Increase in Cases but Hospitalizations Decreasing

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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...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

2021 FIFA Arab Cup

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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 ...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

Qatar Coronavirus Updates -- Cases Up, Spreader Events, and Omicron Variant

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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. Hospita...
Monday, November 15, 2021

Qatar Coronavirus Updates – case rates, boosters, statistics

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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 fie...
Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Qatar Coronavirus Updates – Cases Rising Again

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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 co...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Qatar Coronavirus Updates – Getting Back to Normal, Awaiting Vaccines for Children

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 In Qatar things continue to improve and restrictions continue to be lifted.  Now the country is at roughly 40 community cases a day and alm...
Saturday, October 02, 2021

Qatar Coronavirus Updates – Restrictions Eased, Booster Doses Rolled-Out

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Daily cases in Qatar have been consistently dropping, and community cases are now at around the 40 to 70 range.  With that the Government ha...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Qatar Coronavirus Updates -- Steady Improvement, both Vaccination and Cases

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Things have been slowly progressing and it looks like Qatar has dodged having a bad third wave. Yesterday, for the first time in a long time...