Qatar’s main healthcare provider has suspended leave for all medical and administrative staff dealing with Covid, as infections surge across the Gulf.
The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states — Bah-rain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Qatar — have been re-cording their highest numbers of new cases in months.
“Due to the recent increase in the number of people infected with Covid-19 in Qatar […] the difficult decision has been made to put on hold all approved and future employees’ leave requests for clinical and admin staff who are working in Covid-19 activities,” the state-owned Hamad Medical Cor-poration said in an internal memo circulated on Monday.—AFP
