DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The small, neighboring sheikhdoms of Bahrain and Qatar have the world's highest per capita rates of coronavirus infections. In the two Mideast countries, coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) epidemics initially swept undetected through camps housing healthy and young foreign laborers, studies now show.
In this May 14, 2019 file photo, two people take in the sea breeze at the Corniche waterfront promenade in Doha, Qatar. AP PHOTO