Qatar Vows Zero Tolerance on Food Poisoning Deaths
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BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 12 Gharafa, Rayyan register INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2-7, 24 COMMENT 22, 23 QNB plans to open REGION 8 BUSINESS 1-8, 15, 16 wins 19,986.00 10,596.39 53.83 ARAB WORLD 8, 9 CLASSIFIED 9-14 branches in Saudi, India +165.00 +25.98 +0.29 INTERNATIONAL 10-21 SPORTS 1-12 +0.83% +0.25% +0.54% in overseas push Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 MONDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10356 February 6, 2017 Jumada I 9, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Emir meets Malaysia Dy PM Qatar vows zero In brief tolerance on food QATAR | Offi cial Emir speaks with Somali president HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday held a telephone poisoning deaths conversation with President of the Republic of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud. During the phone call, they Ministry of Public Health set to reviewed bilateral relations and ways launch country’s first-ever public of developing and enhancing them, health strategy and discussed a number of issues of common concern. By Joseph Varghese Staff Reporter ARAB WORLD | Confl ict US coalition jets atar will have zero tolerance bomb IS- held town on deaths caused by food poi- US-led coalition planes bombed an Qsoning, a senior offi cial of the Islamic State-controlled town near the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said Euphrates Dam in northern Syria a day yesterday. after the launch of a new phase of a “Our aim is to become one of the campaign to capture the militants’ de countries with the lowest cases of food facto capital of Raqqa, activists and poisoning,” said Sheikh Dr Mohamed the militants said yesterday. Activists HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday met at his off ice in the bin Hamad al-Thani, director of Public confirmed reports released by the Emiri Diwan Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Health, MoPH. militants’ news agency Amaq which Hamidi and his delegation. The meeting was attended by HE the Prime Minister and He was addressing a group of offi - Sheikh Dr Mohamed bin Hamad al-Thani Dr Hamad Eid al-Rumaihi said four raids in the last 24 hours Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani. Page 3 cials attending a MoPH workshop on hit the town of Tabqa west of Raqqa, preventing and raising awareness on “We are building capacities with reg- According to him, the ministry of- located near Syria’s largest dam, at food poisoning in the country. ulations so that restaurants and labour fi cials routinely check restaurants and the southern end of Lake Assad on “We are also increasing surveillance camps serve healthy food and there will labour camps to increase awareness the Euphrates. A video released by QA launches world’s longest fl ight to avoid any food poisoning outbreaks,” be regular monitoring and awareness. among food handlers. Amaq showed extensive damage to a the offi cial said adding the MoPH was As much as 99% of the food imported “We also raise awareness among the commercial centre in the town but did The world’s longest commercial international tradition to welcome working on launching Qatar’s fi rst-ev- to the country is safe and the incidents public to report any cases of food poi- not mention any casualties. flight landed in New Zealand with the inaugural flights, the Auckland airport er public health strategy. of food poisoning happen due to wrong soning. We will respond quickly to any arrival of Qatar Airways’ 14,535km rescue service showered the plane with Sheikh Dr Mohamed said Qatar has storage and improper practices by the notifi cations on such incidents. The AFRICA | Dispute Doha-Auckland service, the airline water cannons on arrival. been ranked fi rst in the Gulf and 15th people. We already have many laws in food safety personnel will go to the announced. “We’ve off icially landed The previous record for the world’s globally in health quality by the Lega- this regard and the ministry will propose premises and collect samples and check Morocco ‘will never in Auckland,” the airline tweeted as longest scheduled flight by flying time tum Prosperity Index 2016. several new regulations,” he added. in our central labs. The new law gives recognise W Sahara’ flight QR920 landed at 7.25am (1825 was held by Emirates, which launched “We are working on lowering the Dr Hamad Eid al-Rumaihi, director, us the authority to close any premises if Morocco will “never recognise” GMT Sunday), five minutes ahead of direct flights to Auckland from Dubai in cases of food poisoning as well as re- Health Protection & Communicable there is any violation,” he said. Western Sahara’s independence schedule after a 16 hour 23 minute March 2016. sponding to such cases very quickly. Disease, MoPH, said the ministry has The offi cial also noted that the de- despite rejoining the African Union flight. The long-range Boeing 777- Air India has a longer flight by distance, We also focus on lowering the suff er- opened a registry for food poison inci- partments of environmental health and after a decades-long dispute over 200LR crossed 10 time zones on its spanning 15,298km from Delhi to San ing, inconveniences and the hardships dences. communicable disease as well as the the territory, Deputy Foreign Minister marathon flight. Qatar Airways noted Francisco; this takes 14 hours and 30 during the treatment of food poisoning “Last year, we registered about 50 Ministry of Municipality are working in Nasser Bourita said in published the flight was longer than the entire minutes, according to the Times of India. cases. We have engaged an internation- cases of food poisoning. This is more in harmony to face the challenges of food remarks yesterday. Last Monday, the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Singapore Airlines may regain the top ally reputable company for this. We are number compared to the previous year poisoning and prevent them as much as AU approved Morocco’s re-entry into trilogies which were filmed in New spot when it resumes non-stop flights targeting to have a safe country free because we did not have the registry possible. the bloc which it quit in 1984 in protest Zealand. There were four pilots on to New York with an ultra-long distance from food poisoning,” the offi cial said. earlier. One of the priority programmes Dr al-Rumaihi also said that the at the admission of the Sahrawi Arab board as well as 15 cabin crew who variant of the Airbus A350 as soon as Sheikh Dr Mohamed said the MoPH is to improve food safety in 2017. We are MoPH was working closely with the Democratic Republic (SADR) declared served 1,100 cups of tea and coff ee, 2018. will propose several regulations to working closely with the food safety World Health Organisation to develop by the Polisario Front at the height 2,000 cold drinks and 1,036 meals It has said the New York service, at make the necessary changes in the ex- department in this regard,” al-Rumaihi a new set of guidelines on food safety of a war for the territory. “Not only during the flight. In keeping with around 19 hours, will start in 2018. isting laws. said. in Qatar. does Morocco not recognise – and will never recognise – this so-called entity,” Bourita told website Le Desk in an interview. “It will (also) redouble its eff orts so the small minority of countries, particularly African, which recognise it, change their positions.” Temperature drops to record low in Qatar EUROPE | Election he lowest ever temperature – 1.5C Explaining the phenomenon, the re- easterly, bringing air from the land and the Hamad International Airport area A minimum temperature of 7C is ex- Le Pen vows ‘France – in Qatar’s history was recorded port said a “cold wave” had been aff ect- resulting in a “dramatic” drop in tem- and 11C in the Doha airport area. pected in Al Khor, 8C in Wakrah, Abu fi rst’ at campaign launch Tin Abu Samra early yesterday, the ing the country since February 1 evening perature – over 7.5C – within 30 min- The maximum ranged from 15C to 19C Samra and Mesaieed, and 12C in Doha Far-right leader Marine Le Pen vowed weather offi ce said. and, as a result, temperatures dropped utes, the weather offi ce said, noting that in the country. today. The maximum temperature will yesterday she would be a president The previous record was set way back across the country and the Arabian Pe- the air monitoring station in Abu Samra More is available at http://qweather. be higher than yesterday, ranging from who puts France first as she formally in 1964, when the temperature touched ninsula in general. On Saturday, the area is one of the modern automatic stations gov.qa/NewsDetail.aspx#sthash.VnoL- 18C to 21C in the country. launched a campaign echoing many 3.8C in Mesaieed, according to the Qatar was infl uenced by high pressure accom- of the Meteorology department. l4Lb.dpuf In a detailed report, the weather of- of the themes that propelled Donald Meteorology Department (QMD). panied by a cold air mass. Meanwhile, low temperatures were Meanwhile, another cold night is ex- fi ce forecast hazy to misty conditions in Trump to the White House. With polls Weather charts also showed that sev- Around dawn yesterday, until recorded in several other places in the pected in the country today and there is inshore areas in the early hours, followed showing her now leading the first eral other places saw a minimum of 5C 5.40am, the wind speed was moder- country yesterday.