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Amir chairs first meeting of Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy QNA/Doha His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani chaired the first meeting of the Board of Directors of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy of 2020 that was held via video conference on Monday morning. His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Thani and HH Sheikh...

QNA/Doha Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has announced Monday that the Urgent Care Unit at the National Center for Cancer Care and Research will no longer be accepting walk-in patients who are having conditions not related to cancer. The change is is part of the steps taken to limit the spread of the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and to protect visitors. Cancer patients with urgent conditions...

The Ministry of Interior Monday announced that visitors in Qatar on tourist visas (on-arrival and priorly issued visas) can stay in the country without extending their visas or paying any fee, taking into account their inability to return to their home countries due to the closure of airports. Once the country declares that the conditions have returned to normal and...

AP Photo/Matt Rourke By JEFF GREENFIELD 04/12/2020 07:00 AM EDT Jeff Greenfield is a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and author. The chaos around Wisconsin’s primary last week has raised the level of concern about November’s Election Day to Defcon-1 status. Will Republican legislators in key states block efforts to expand mail-in voting, and force people to stand in line together? Will we be clear...

Illustration by The Red Dress By MICHAEL KRUSE 04/17/2020 05:06 AM EDT Facebook Twitter Link More Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer for POLITICO. His audacity masked his desperation. It was the spring of 1995. Donald Trump was this close to finished. He had spent the previous five years constantly, and barely, avoiding financial ruin and what he worried would be a permanent stain of...

“Groceries and pharmacies are also open to help them meet daily requirements. Ooredoo has also made arrangements for workers to conduct financial transfers,” said Lt Col Ahmad al- Ghanim, Doha Industrial Quarantine Area commander. PICTURES: Shemeer Rasheed “Groceries and pharmacies are also open to help them meet daily requirements. Ooredoo has also made arrangements for workers to conduct financial transfers,”...

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced a list of more than 500 discounted consumer goods for Ramadan 2020. The list, which comes into effect Saturday (April 18, 25 Shaban, 1441 Hijri), will remain applicable until the end of the holy month (See the list here on the MoCI website). The initiative was launched in co-operation with major shopping malls within...

The Qatari flag was projected onto the famous Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland by the Zermatt tourism authorities to express solidarity in the fight against Covid-19. The flags of a number of countries have been projected so far. “Light is hope! In this sense, the Matterhorn is illuminated daily during the coronavirus pandemic. With this light projection, Zermatt wants to...

QNA/Doha Qatar Charity continues its efforts in providing food and hygiene supplies to contribute to curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), co-operating with a number of embassies to distribute food parcels to communities residing in Qatar. In co-operation with the relevant government bodies, it is also distributing cultural bags for adults and gifts for children in quarantine. Qatar Charity has...

Rain, strong winds forecast for today Thundery rain is expected in some places today along with strong winds, the Qatar Met department has said. Thundershowers have also been forecast in offshore areas today along with windy conditions and high seas at first, according to the weather report. The wind speed may go up to 30 knots both inshore and offshore during thundershowers, with...

KIMS Qatar Medical Centre (KQMC) has launched telehealth services, to provide outpatient consultation of its expert doctors through online audio/video platform. The service has been launched in line with the precautionary measures against the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, as patients and clinicians also need to maintain social distancing. The service is available from 9am to 9pm; Saturday to Thursday. The consultation...

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) Sunday announced the registration of 440 confirmed new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) in Qatar, and the recovery of eight cases, taking the total number of those recovered to 518. According to a MoPH statement, on official Qatar News Agency (QNA), most of the new cases are due to migrant workers who had been identified...

QNA/Doha Thundery rain associated strong winds is expected tonight until 6am Sunday, the Department of Meteorology has warned in its daily weather report. Offshore, Thundery rain associated rain with strong wind and high seas likely. Inshore, it will be partly cloudy with scattered rain which can be thundery at places with slight dust at times. Offshore will be partly cloudy to cloudy with...

Doha Ministry of Public Health today announces the registration of 345 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) and the recovery of 46 cases of the disease, bringing the total cases of recovery in the State of Qatar to 510 cases. It also announced that an additional patient had sadly died from coronavirus. Most of the new cases of COVID-19 are due...