Qatar and FIFA to mark two years to World Cup 2022 kick-off

This giant tent structure is al bait stadium in arabic it translates to the house and will be home to 60 000 fans for,The opening game of the 2022 world cup if the coronavirus pandemic lifts in time the global health crisis hit just as qatar was finalizing its preparations covert 19.

The pandemic and we see that the the pandemic is as well under control here in qatar so that's that's a very good thing qualifiers around the world have been the virus is still with us in two years time qatar has now had experience of holding a tournament in a bio-secure bubble the asian champions league is currently underway here.

Across several venues teams who coming from abroad and also the teams from within the two clubs from doha would go through a systematic approach where they be tested first before entering. the hotel so those coming from abroad tested in the airport then they go to the hotel they check in and then they wait for the results of the.

Testing and then we do a repeated testing for uh for all every three to six days it's been a very different experience for us from the get-go we uh when we got on. the flight we had to uh obviously wear the face masks and then straight away we had to a face screen around our faces the whole 15-hour flight we came to the hotel where the staff have been quarantining for i think two weeks already so everyone here in the bubble has been in the bubble for two weeks before.

I was arriving australian club perth glory tested out the education city world cup stadium in their first group match and were impressed that stadium's probably uh the best stadium i've played in i think we were the first ones to use it so you know you couldn't have got a a better pitch the changing rooms you know as i said the pitch the benches all top top facilities five of the eight stadiums are already finished and some have already held matches but the hard work continues at others like here at la sales stadium which will host the final on december.

The 18th 2022 and where the new world champions will be crowned with two years to go and covid19 vaccines on the way organizers remain confident that the first middle east world cup will be safe and successful joanna gaschroska.