Qatar’s cabinet on Wednesday told private sector companies in the state to direct 80 percent of their staff to work from home to help reduce the spread of coronavirus.
These include the military and security, the ministry of foreign affairs and diplomatic missions, health care, oil and gas, plus some government employees and workers on national flagship projects.
Household cleaning services will be suspended, QNA reported, and the number of workers transported by bus halved.
The state also said it has extended the suspension of inbound flights except transit and cargo over coronavirus fears.
Qatar extended a lockdown of an industrial area in Doha where authorities reported dozens of cases of the disease, QNA added.
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The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are the seven Arab states which border the Persian Gulf, namely Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).This excludes the non-Arab state of Iran. All of these nations except Iraq are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
