DUBAI : The small, neighboring sheikhdoms of Bahrain and Qatar have the world's highest per capita rates of coronavirus infections.
In the two Mideast countries, COVID-19 epidemics initially swept undetected through camps housing healthy and young foreign laborers, studies now show.In Qatar, a new study found that nearly 60% of those testing positive showed no symptoms at all, calling into question the usefulness of mass temperature checks meant to stop the infected from mingling with others.