The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Sunday announced that the total number of patients to have recovered from Covid-19 in Qatar has reached 1,012, after registering 83 new recovered cases in the last 24 hours, official Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported.
The MoPH also reported 929 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, pointing that most of the new cases registered are expatriate workers who work in different occupations and who have been in contact with previously discovered cases, as well as recording new cases of Covid-19 among groups of workers from outside the industrial area who were identified through testing. This has contributed to the early detection of new cases.
The remainder of new Covid-19 cases are citizens and residents who have contracted the virus from members of their families, who in turn had contracted the virus through their workplaces or other places where they came in contact with infected people.
All the new infected cases have been quarantined where they are receiving the necessary medical care, said MoPH.
The Ministry attributed the noticeable increase in the number of new confirmed Covid-19 cases to several reasons, including that the spread of the virus has begun to enter the peak stage where numbers are expected to continue to increase before they begin to gradually decline.
This is in addition to the fact that the Ministry has doubled its efforts in tracking the Covid-19 transmission chains and expanded the scope of search for infected people by conducting extensive and proactive tests of groups of contacts with people who have been confirmed with the disease previously. This early detection of many cases of infection greatly helps reduce the spread of the virus.
According to a tweet from the MoPH, with a total of 2,584 people tested for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, as many as 82,289 have been tested so far in Qatar.
There are 10,287 positive cases to date in Qatar and 9,265 cases currently undergoing treatment. The total number of Covid-19 deaths so far in Qatar is 10, according to the tweet.
The MoPH calls on all members of society to stay at home and not go out except in cases of necessity and to take care to implement preventive measures and maintain social distancing from others, including in the workplace and public places. The Ministry reminds people to use a face mask and avoid social visits to reduce their risk of contracting the virus.
The MoPH also urged the public to visit its website regularly to view the latest information and instructions related to Covid-19, QNA added.