Department of Public Health, Public Health Specialist, HP-CDC, MOPH, Qatar
 Perspective   
								
																Qatar’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic-A Reflection on the Initial 100 Days 
																Author(s): Jesha Mohammedali Mundodan*, Elmoubasher Abu Baker Abd Farag, Soha Shawqi Albayat, Hamad Eid Al-Romaihi and Mohammed Hamad J Al-Thani             
								
																
						 Background: After COVID-19 was declared as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO governments of the world, including 
  Arab states of Gulf Cooperation Council, took stringent measures to limit the spread of the COVID-19. Qatar’s preparations for responding to the 
  potential pandemic began soon after the Wuhan event became public. In this article we reflected upon the response of the State of Qatar against 
  the COVID-19 pandemic during the initial 100 days from 1st January, 2020 to 9th April, 2020. Qatar’s efforts have always been directed to halt its 
  local transmission, contain the spread, and mitigate the impact of outbreak. Qatar reported its first case of COVID-19 on the 29th of February 2020. 
  Qatar rolled out the most ambitious and aggressive disease containment effort in history. The state&rsqu.. Read More»
						  
																DOI:
								10.37421/ijphs.2022.7.264