Qatar Economic Outlook Issue Number 13

184.3
0
200
400
600
800
1,000
Agricultural
Mining
manufacturing
electricity
Water
Construction
Wholesale and retail trade
Trasporation
Accommodation and food
IT
Finance and Insurance
Real estate
Professional and scientific
Administrative and…
Public Administration
Education
Health
Arts and entertainment
other service
Household
 Extraterritorial orgnization
Census 2020
Census 2010
Source: Planning and Statitics Authority 
Figure (1) for Box (2-5) Distribution of the Labor Force by Economic 
Activities for the Year 2020 and according to the 2010 and 2020 
Census Structure

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Part 2 - Economic Performance 2017 - 2020 
 
 
69 
Administrative and economic 
measures to minimize the 
Covid-19 pandemic’s impacts
When the first case of Coronavirus infection 
appeared, the State of Qatar quickly took all 
measures recommended by its public health 
authorities to limit the virus’ spread, including 
a decision made to suspend public and 
private schools and universities for all 
students as early as 9 March 2020. Once the 
number exceeded 200 cases on 11 March 
2020, the government issued three packages 
of measures, including: restrictions on 
economic and social activities to protect the 
population against infection; administrative 
measures and financial investments to 
support the health care sector; and stimulus 
fiscal and monetary policies for the recovery 
and stability of the economy. 
The nature of the restrictive measures for 
economic and service activities will be 
reviewed later, but they can be summarized 
in: all forms of gatherings by way of closing 
economic, service, and social activities with 
heavy contact and mingling such as 
commercial and touristic facilities, places of 
worship, and social activities, while halting 
public transit, and preventing travel and the 
organizing of inward flights, simultaneously 
imposing online work by reducing the 
percentage of staff permitted in workplaces. 
In regard to the administrative measures to 
support health care, these focused on 
stopping all health care services for the 
population except for emergency cases, with 
the aim of allocating the public and private 
health system to conduct Covid-19 tests, 
providing medical care to patients infected 
with the virus, and imposing home quarantine 
for suspected cases. In order to raise the 
treatment capacity, two temporary medical 
facilities with a capacity of more than 4,640 
beds were established for the purpose of 
providing health care for light cases. Other 
field medical facilities for light and medium 
cases having a capacity of 18,000 beds were 
also prepared, with commercial deals being 
conducted to purchase all supplies for 
disease prevention, as well as supplies 
needed for patients' treatment, such as 
medical devices and therapeutic drugs. 
As for the economic policy package, it was a 
combination of fiscal and monetary policies to 
stimulate domestic aggregate demand and 
address supply and demand shocks at the 
same time, as follows: