{"id":1235340,"date":"2022-10-26T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/26\/qatar-to-scrap-pre-arrival-covid-19-test-before-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:01:52","slug":"qatar-to-scrap-pre-arrival-covid-19-test-before-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/26\/qatar-to-scrap-pre-arrival-covid-19-test-before-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar to scrap pre-arrival COVID-19 test before World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Qatar-World-Cup-696x391.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Qatar-World-Cup\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Qatar is to drop pre-arrival Covid-19 tests for visitors in the run-up to the World Cup, which starts on November 20, the health ministry said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisitors are no longer required to present a negative Covid-19 PCR or Rapid Antigen Test result before travelling to Qatar,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The relaxed measures, effective from November 1, were announced after Qatar last month said Covid vaccinations were not mandatory for the expected million-plus fans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The 29-day tournament will be the first major global sporting event with fans since the Covid pandemic erupted in December 2019, killing more than six million people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Qatari citizens and residents will\u00a0also no longer need to take a PCR or rapid antigen test within 24 hours of returning from abroad, the health ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>The new measures cover all visitors arriving from November 1, when Qatar will be closed to anyone without a Hayya card \u2014 the mandatory document given to ticket holders and their guests, players, media, staff and officials.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"NXTQoozV0ro\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 3:55PM on Adom TV (26-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NXTQoozV0ro?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar is to drop pre-arrival Covid-19 tests for visitors in the run-up to the World Cup, which starts on November 20, the health ministry said on Wednesday. \u201cVisitors are no longer required to present a negative Covid-19 PCR or Rapid Antigen Test result before travelling to Qatar,\u201d a statement said. The relaxed measures, effective from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[261,262,28058,2457,9859,1292,784],"class_list":["post-1235340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-covid19","tag-cup","tag-prearrival","tag-qatar","tag-scrap","tag-test","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}