To prevent the spread of Covid – Khalifa reported that only fans who are vaccinated against the coronavirus will be able to attend the Qatar World Cup 2022.
The local authority reported that a contingency plan has been started to face the pandemic and that nothing affects the World Cup tournament.
“Currently We are negotiating with a company to provide us with a million doses of vaccines for the COVID – 19 in order to immunize and vaccinate some of those who come to Qatar ”, affirmed.
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In order to favor the vaccination process, the Qatari government has progressively reduced the sanitary restrictions that had been imposed for more than a year . However, the rules with World Cup fans will be different.
“ Qatar will not allow fans who are not fully vaccinated to enter its stadiums “, indicated the Prime Minister, implying that the first priority is” to protect citizens and residents, vaccinating some of those who come to Qatar for the World Cup ” .
Bin Khalifa also assured that more than 72% of the 2, 72 million inhabitants received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Despite this measure, since March there had been started the sale of tickets for the World Cup up to $ 50 thousand dollars