Ehteraz app plays vital role in keeping people safe during lifting of restrictions

Ehteraz mobile application is playing an important role in keeping Qatar’s population safe.

Ehteraz app was launched in April. It is a highly advanced application that helps to keep citizens and residents of Qatar safe from COVID-19 and supports the hard work of the frontline public health teams in the fight against COVID-19.

Etheraz application is playing vital role in keeping people safe, say health officials, as Qatar entered Phase 4 of the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions #QNA

— Qatar News Agency (@QNAEnglish) September 8, 2020

“All the evidence from here in Qatar and around the world shows that COVID-19 is a highly transmissible virus with the ability to spread rapidly. Ehteraz has provided us with an advanced application to support both the public and the health sector during COVID-19,” said Dr. Yousef Al Maslamani, Chair of the Ehteraz Joint Taskforce Committee and Hamad General Hospital Medical Director.

“The universal and sustained use of Ehteraz offers critical benefits to citizens and residents of Qatar and helps to protect individuals, family members, and the entire community. The success of Ehteraz in keeping people safe from COVID-19 requires the support of the population and for all citizens, residents, and visitors to download the application and ensure they have it running at all times when outside of their home. I would like to thank the people of Qatar for the way they have positively responded to Ehteraz and welcomed it as a vital tool that is helping us all get through this difficult time,” added Dr. Al Maslamani.

Ehteraz supports the community with a wide range of benefits, including providing information about daily Qatar COVID-19 statistics and health advice. It also reassures users about the status of others they may be in contact with by allowing them to ask to see their Ehteraz status and it also helps people feel safe and protected in public facilities including malls, supermarkets, and offices.

Since Qatar announced its revised COVID-19 travel policy at the end of July, Ehteraz has been supporting people undergoing home quarantine after returning from abroad. Passengers arriving from low-risk countries have their Ehteraz status set to yellow for the duration of their home quarantine. They must perform a swab test on day six and their Ehteraz status will not turn green until the swab test is performed and a negative result has been verified. This process helps to reduce the risk of returning travelers bringing the virus back into Qatar and passing it on to other members of the community. 

A new function is set to be introduced on Ehteraz app in mid-September to support people undergoing home quarantine. In cases where an individual resides in a location without a ‘blue plate’ listing their national address, or in cases where the individual chooses to quarantine in a location different to their primary registered residence, they will be able to use the map function to select their quarantine location. Individuals only can select the home quarantine location once. After their initial selection, the location will be locked for the duration of the quarantine.

For more information, check the Ministry of Public Health COVID-19 website.

In case of any technical issues, call on 109, or for more general COVID-19 queries, call the support team on 16000.

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Source:  MOPH