Pre-registration on Ehteraz website now optional

The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday announced that pre-registration on the Ehteraz website before arriving in Qatar is not mandatory but optional for citizens and residents.

However, Visitors are still required to pre-register and obtain the approval before travel. By registering on the website, travellers will be able to know the status of their application, the ministry added.

Dr Yousef Al Maslamani, Medical Director of Hamad General Hospital, has told Qatar TV in an earlier interview, “Through the available information, it will be easy to determine whether the traveller will be exempted from quarantine or will be subjected to home or hotel quarantine, and this matter will save time and effort. The same is true for airlines. Even when the traveller arrives at the airport, there will be no need to stand in long queues because he has a paper containing all the required information.”

The platform has a link on the Ehteraz application and after filling in the data, the e-mail that will reach the traveller through mail ID registered with the Ehteraz application.

Travellers must fill in the data within 72 to 12 hours before traveling to give the employees an opportunity to review the attached documents and verify their accuracy. The permission to travel to Doha will be accorded after that.

With regard to quarantine of children, Al Maslamani said they follow their parents in quarantine.

If the parents are vaccinated, the children will not be quarantined at the hotel, and if the parents are not vaccinated, the quarantine will be applied to the children as well, except in the case, when the children are coming from one of the green countries and they are between zero and 12 years of age.