International Journal of Public Health and Safety

Department of Public Health, Acting head of Communicable Disease control section, HP-CDC, MOPH, Qatar

Publications

• Perspective   
  Qatar’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic-A Reflection on the Initial 100 Days
  Author(s): Jesha Mohammedali Mundodan*, Elmoubasher Abu Baker Abd Farag, Soha Shawqi Albayat, Hamad Eid Al-Romaihi and Mohammed Hamad J Al-Thani
  
  Background: After COVID-19 was declared as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO governments of the world, including Arab states of Gulf Cooperation Council, took stringent measures to limit the spread of the COVID-19. Qatar’s preparations for responding to the potential pandemic began soon after the Wuhan event became public. In this article we reflected upon the response of the State of Qatar against the COVID-19 pandemic during the initial 100 days from 1st January, 2020 to 9th April, 2020. Qatar’s efforts have always been directed to halt its local transmission, contain the spread, and mitigate the impact of outbreak. Qatar reported its first case of COVID-19 on the 29th of February 2020. Qatar rolled out the most ambitious and aggressive disease containment effort in history. The state&rsqu.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/ijphs.2022.7.264

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