DUBAI UNDER LOCKDOWN

by Mahmoud Khaled

Authorities in Dubai locked the city down during April with some of the most severe measures in the world, and have been gradually easing back to reopening. The approach appears to have worked during the initial phase of the pandemic, having kept infection and mortality rates relatively low. But numbers of visitors to the Gulf, one of the richest regions in the world, have plummeted as international travel restrictions largely remain in place.