The Ministry of Public Health in Qatar has announced its new Covid-19 ‘Green List’ comprising low-risk countries, which became effective on Thursday.
With the State of Qatar continuing to implement its travel and return policy, the Covid-19 ‘Green List’ has been updated, effective 22nd October, to include the following countries based on public health indicators in Qatar and across the world. This list will be further reviewed and updated when needed.
The list includes the following countries:
- Hungary
- Finland
- Latvia
- Estonia
- Norway
- Italy
- Lithuania
- Greece
- Slovakia
- Ireland
- Germany
- Slovenia
- Denmark
- Cyprus
- United Kingdom
- Poland
- Austria
- Netherlands
- Iceland
- France
- Croatia
- Switzerland
- Belgium
- Portugal
- Sweden
- Bulgaria
- Malta
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Brunei Darussalam
- Thailand
- China
- Hong Kong SAR-China and Macau SAR – China
- Vietnam
- Malaysia
- South Korea
- Japan
- Turkey
- Maldives
- Singapore
- Taiwan
- Cuba
- Canada
- Uruguay
- Mexico
- Algeria
- Morocco
- New Zealand
- Australia
Travellers who are returning from the above low-risk countries should take up a Covid-19 test on arrival at Hamad International Airport and sign home quarantine undertaking to comply with the home quarantine procedure for a week.
Their health status on the Ehteraz application will indicate ‘Yellow’, which implies that the individual is under quarantine. On the sixth day, the individual will have to get a Covid-19 re-test done at any of the Primary Health Care Corporation health centres. If the result is positive, the individual should be isolated, and the health status on the app will turn ‘red’. If it is negative, the quarantine period will end at the seventh day, and the health status on the app will turn ‘green’.
The Covid-19 ‘Green List’ will be published on the MoPH website and announced by the Civil Aviation Authority. The list will be reviewed and updated regularly based on public health indicators in Qatar and across the world.
