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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar, Kenya ink deals No new MERS Rift among cases in Qatar DOHA: Amid a jump in the number of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) cases in Saudi Arabia, the GCC states Supreme Council of Health (SCH) yesterday clarified that Qatar had had no new cases since November 2013. In a statement, the SCH said that it was constantly analysing healed: FM the risk of MERS and taking precautions to prevent it from spreading, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and No compromises made: Al Attiyah the World Health Organisation. High body temperature with DOHA: The Foreign Minister H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad breathing difficulty has been iden- H E Dr Khaled bin Mohamed Al Al Thani during the Arab League tified as one symptom of MERS. Attiyah said yesterday that the Summit recently held in Kuwait. People displaying the symptom “Gulf differences” had come to “I cannot give an assessment are immediately isolated and an end and it was now up to the of the situation in Egypt but we tested at a specialised laboratory countries that had recalled their hope to see Egypt rising at all lev- of Hamad Medical Corporation. ambassadors from Doha to send els, which is extremely important The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta during the signing of THE PENINSULA them back.