The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC), the organisation responsible for delivering the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar has confirmed the first death due to Covid-19 among its workforce engaged in various World Cup-related projects.
The victim was a 51-year-old specialist engineer who was employed by one of SC's contractors who had been working in the projects since 2019.
"Sadly, on June 11, 2020, a 51-year-old specialist engineer employed by the contractor Conspel, tragically died after contracting COVID-19," a statement from SC read.
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"He had worked on Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy projects since October 2019 and had no underlying health issues.