Due to coronavirus infections surge, non-essential surgery has been suspended for a month and live entertainment in hotels and restaurants until further notice in Dubai.
The decision to postpone certain surgeries, which takes effect midnight on Thursday and could be extended, was aimed at ensuring the preparedness of health facilities to manage COVID-19 cases, Dubai’s health regulator said in a circular published on Wednesday.
Dubai’s tourism department issued a circular, seen by Reuters, suspending entertainment in hotels and restaurants after recording an increase in violations of coronavirus precautions.
Daily cases in the United Arab Emirates hit a record 3,506 on Wednesday, the highest in the Gulf Arab region where daily tallies in each of the other five states have fallen below 500.
The Gulf state has ramped up its immunisation campaign with the aim of vaccinating more than 50 per cent of its roughly 9 million population, the majority of whom are expatriates, before the end of March.
It has approved the vaccine developed by Sinopharm’s China National Pharmaceutical Group and made it available to the general public. Dubai is also inoculating people with the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTec.
(Reuters)
