The country is the worst affected in the Gulf with 401 confirmed cases. FMTNews Qatar
Many of Qatar’s initial cases were from a group of citizens and foreign staff repatriated from Iran.
“We’ve taken a number of decisions, including suspending inward flights to Qatar starting from Wednesday evening for two weeks,” assistant foreign minister Lolwah al-Khater told media in Doha. The principal user of Doha’s Hamad International Airport is state-run Qatar Airways, which mostly operates the transit flights exempt from the new measures.
Qatari health officials said on Saturday that four patients had made a full recovery after being diagnosed with the virus.
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