{"id":1519,"date":"2020-10-17T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T08:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/?p=35821"},"modified":"2020-10-17T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T08:17:23","slug":"uae-ranks-the-3rd-lowest-in-terms-of-resurgent-covid19-infections-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/latest\/uae-ranks-the-3rd-lowest-in-terms-of-resurgent-covid19-infections-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"The UAE Ranks The 3rd Lowest In Terms Of &#8216;Resurgent COVID-19 Infections&#8217; In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fear of the second and third wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19<\/a> is thick and heavy in the air, especially with winter on the horizon, and with that many countries are already experiencing a steady spike in cases because of multiple factors;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening of borders<\/li>\n<li>People flouting COVID-regulations<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient measures taken by governments before lifting the lockdown<\/li>\n<li>And etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>However, when compared to 16 other countries in the Middle East, UAE ranked the 3rd lowest in terms of resurgent COVID-19 infections &#8211; for which all the credit goes to the country&#8217;s proactive government and law-abiding residents<\/h2>\n<p><!--infeed--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/10\/17114312\/covid-stringency-index-1.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><\/p>\n<h2>However, there HAS been a resurgence of cases in the ME over the recent few months &amp; <em>&#8220;some nations are in the process of reimposing partial or shorter nationwide lockdowns&#8221;<\/em> to prevent an influx of infections from hitting the country<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thread: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MiddleEast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MiddleEast<\/a> has seen a resurgence in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Covid19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Covid19<\/a> cases in recent weeks &amp; many nations are in the process of reimposing partial or shorter nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lockdowns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lockdowns<\/a>: the Government Response Stringency Index increased (i.e. stricter) for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAE<\/a> in the past month <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nasser_Saidi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Nasser_Saidi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X0u3otC7Dn\">pic.twitter.com\/X0u3otC7Dn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nasser Saidi &amp; Asso (@NSA_economics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSA_economics\/status\/1316283042500149248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Furthermore, stats also indicate that retail &amp; recreation in the UAE is far from returning to pre-COVID levels, with Sharjah and Abu Dhabi in the lead for &#8216;retail mobility recovery&#8217; in comparison to Dubai.<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that Dubai has the highest population in the Emirates, thus COVID-recovery rate in the city would naturally take more time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What next? Note that a second (or even third) wave\u00a0of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Covid19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Covid19<\/a> is unfolding,\u00a0as we enter the\u00a0cold winter months: given the likelihood of resurgence, partial recovery &#8211; as indicated by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMIs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMIs<\/a> &#8211; may be temporary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nasser_Saidi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Nasser_Saidi<\/a> Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lZG0YbOlkS\">https:\/\/t.co\/lZG0YbOlkS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nasser Saidi &amp; Asso (@NSA_economics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSA_economics\/status\/1316283055317884929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fear of the second and third wave of COVID-19 is thick and heavy in the air, especially with winter on the horizon, and with that many countries are already experiencing a steady spike in cases because of multiple factors; Opening of borders People flouting COVID-regulations Insufficient measures taken by governments before lifting the lockdown &hellip; ","protected":false},"author":1822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,6,7],"tags":[],"acf":{"featured_for_app":false,"hide_featured_image":false,"featured_image":false,"featured_image_caption":"","summary":"","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"a:6:{i:0;s:10:\"text_block\";i:1;s:11:\"image_block\";i:2;s:10:\"text_block\";i:3;s:11:\"embed_block\";i:4;s:10:\"text_block\";i:5;s:11:\"embed_block\";}"}],"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","type_of_video":"Self Hosted","lovin_video_link":false,"lovin_video_link_webm":false,"video_thumbnail":false,"disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"legacy_meta_tags":"","episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":"","is_guest_user":false},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"Simrin Gupta","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}