Doha: The weekly antigen test for students will be applied for two weeks, to begin with, and after that, the situation will be monitored and new measures will be taken accordingly, a senior official at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education said.
This was announced by Mohamed Al Maraghi, Director of the Health and Safety Department at the Ministry, in a phone call to Qatar TV.
"We ask the parents to test for two weeks, and after that, we will study the situation, and then we could follow new procedures or continue with these measures. We will conduct a survey for these two weeks, and accordingly, a decision will be taken," he added
Al-Maraghi stressed that parents need to only send the declaration form with the students to the school showing a negative result.
On a question about who should get the test, Al-Maraghi replied that “all students needed to do the rapid test, starting from kindergarten, whether they are recovering, vaccinated or unvaccinated. Everyone must be tested in the first two weeks.”
Regarding the mechanism for filling out the declaration form, Al-Maraghi added: “The guardian must test the child and if the result is negative, fill out the declaration form, print it and send it with the student to the school."
Al-Maraghi confirmed that all students in government schools will be given two test kits and the Ministry of Health has provided 150,000 devices to these schools.
"In government schools, if some students test positive and are quarantined at homes, online option will be provided," he added.
