The UK removes the UAE from travel corridor list due to surge in COVID-19 cases
As the UK lives its darkest days of the pandemic, it removed the UAE from travel corridor.
UK authorities approved imposing a 10-day quarantine on those coming from the UAE.
This prompted Emirati activists to question their country’s transparency in dealing with the pandemic.
United Arab Emirates removed from travel corridor list https://t.co/RoJ5ASfsZN
— UKinUAE ???? (@ukinuae) January 11, 2021
Record outbreak
Recently, the number of COVID-19 cases has increased in the Emirates.
During the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health announced the registration of 2,404 cases, three deaths, and 2,252 recoveries.
Thus, the total number of cases registered in the Emirates reached 232,982 confirmed cases, of which 208,366 recovered, and the number of deaths reached 711cases.
Observers attributed the daily record rise in infections to the system’s failure to contain the virus and its hasty decisions to receive tourists.
Observers emphasized that the escalation in the rate of injuries is related to tourists’ remnants coming to the UAE to spend the New Year holidays, especially in Dubai.
Influx of tourists
When other states have taken strict measures to prevent New Year celebrations, the Emirati regime favoured economic gains.
The UAE allowed a random influx of tourists and public celebrations by the new year, negatively affecting the COVID-19 record.
In this regard, the Hebrew newspaper Yediot Aharonot highlighted a large influx of Israelis to the UAE in recent days.
The newspaper mentioned that the Israelis flocked to Ben Gurion Airport to travel abroad in an attempt to escape from the complete closure that came into effect yesterday.
The newspaper pointed out that the majority of tickets for the Israelis were booked towards Dubai.
Floundering at vaccinations
The UAE regime’s experience with the Coronavirus pandemic vaccine was another practical evidence of the severity of its confusion and Abu Dhabi’s obsession with impractical titles.
It prompted the UAE’s arrogance and obsession with reaping titles to contract with the Chinese vaccine and then getting rid of it to other countries after it was proven ineffective.
The UAE has become the only country to announce the Chinese vaccine’s preliminary results, and the first country to authorize it.
A few days ago, the Dubai government announced that it would start a vaccination campaign with the Russian Pfizer-Biontech vaccine.
This step comes after the UAE launched a vaccine developed only a week ago by the Chinese National Medicines Group (Sinopharma).
Mania of titles
The UAE was the first country to approve the Chinese vaccine, and it said it is 86 per cent effective, based on an interim analysis of clinical trials in the late stages.
On Biotech of last month, the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention announced the Chinese vaccine’s reliance.
The ministry said that it had “reviewed the preliminary results of the third phase trials conducted by Sinopharma CNPG+.
It added that the results showed an 86% effectiveness against infection with the Covid-19 virus.
Last September, the UAE legalized the emergency use of the vaccine for health workers.
The Chinese pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm began the third phase of vaccine trials in the UAE last July.
China is developing four vaccines, including Sinopharma, but it has not published enough information about these vaccines compared to other Western companies.
In Peru, clinical trials of the Sinopharm vaccine were suspended after discovering neurological problems in a volunteer.
