Top stories from Qatar on #TheRoundUp today: 🇰🇷 South Korea seeks Qatar support over seized oil tanker 🇪🇬Egypt-Qatar flights resume following three-year hiatus 💉Second dose of COVID-19 vaccine begins 💙‘Braveheart health workers aw...

While most Covid-19 patients report having symptoms for 3-4 weeks, for 10-20% of patients, these can persist for months.  This condition has been called post-Covid-19 syndrome, or, more commonly, “Long Covid”, and is emerging as an unforeseen an...

As electric sales increase worldwide, sustainability-focused Qatar is also jumping on the eco-friendly trend.  Electric car sales have seen tremendous growth over the past few years. Globally, it’s estimated that over half of new cars sold will be...

The bodybuilder was reportedly arrested on January 8th for breaching Qatar’s territorial waters during a fishing trip. Qatar released Bahraini bodybuilding champion Sami Ibrahim Al Hadad and several others who were arrested for breaching Doha’s t...

Health experts from Qatar are among a World Health Organisation team of 13 specialists sent to conduct joint research with Chinese scientists. A Qatari expert is among a team of World Health Organization (WHO) experts that headed to the central China...

Egypt and Qatar have resumed flights after three-years of restrictions. Qatar Airways and EgyptAir have both announced the resumption of flights between the two countries starting Monday. In a tweet, Qatar’s national carrier said it would will be a...

The South Korean-flagged MT Hankuk Chemi was seized by Iran’s authorities based on a court order for “environmental pollution”. South Korea’s First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong Kun met with Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bi...

WhatsApp made headlines this week after announcing a controversial decision to force users to share data with its parent company, Facebook. WhatsApp is back in the news this week following another privacy-related scandal. The Facebook-owned company i...

The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) announced plans to set up five new parks in the city in cooperation with Al Rayyan Municipality. Five new parks with modern facilities are due to open in Doha in the next two years, Asghal confirmed. The project i...

The national carrier will also retire half its fleet of A-380’s Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker is confident that air travel will return to pre-COVID levels eventually, however, it is unlikely to happen until 2024.  “If a new varian...