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Eid festivities in Qatar hold a distinct place in the cultural tapestry, marking the culmination of significant dates in the Islamic lunar calendar. The two key holidays are Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Eid al-Fitr, which means the "festivity of breaking the fast", takes place on the first day of the tenth month post-Ramadan. This event denotes ...
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar. 9 January – Qatar reports a record 3,487 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 266,344. [1] 30 January – Qatar begins administering the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged between 5 and 11 years. It comes after the ...
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February 2-4: Ellen van Dijk wins the 2011 Ladies Tour of Qatar February 6-11: Mark Renshaw wins the 2011 Tour of Qatar May 10: Qatari municipal elections, 2011
The tourism sector continues to witness a strong recovery with more than 729,000 international visitors in the first half of 2022, marking a 19% increase compared to the full year of 2021, and the aim is to raise tourism to 12% of GDP by 2030. [254]
24 September — Qatar becomes the second Muslim-majority country after Brunei to be included in the Visa Waiver Program of the United States. [ 3 ] 15 October — Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani announces plans for a referendum on whether to abolish direct elections to the Consultative Assembly of Qatar .
Qatar became the first host nation to lose their opening match at a World Cup. [140] [141] [142] Many Qatar natives were seen leaving the game before the end, with ESPN reporting that two-thirds of the attendance had left. [143] [144] The other starting match in group A was won by the Netherlands 2–0 over Senegal.