Getting vaccinated in the United Arab Emirates, a way for the rich and beyond

The Bahrain made the proposal and some Formula One teams accepted. Ferrari is one of them. He joined the vaccination campaign proposed by Bahrain. On a voluntary basis, the staff of the team that is in the Emirates for the first F1 seasonal tests and that will remain there until the first race of the year which will take place on Sunday 28 March. These people will be able to receive the double dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and they are not the only foreign ones who can do it in the Emirates.

About 90% of Maranello employees on business trips took part.

The thought is for a long season of travel and an immunization that, by age, would certainly arrive later in Italy. Charles Leclerc, who has recently been negative after having the disease, will not get vaccinated, he will almost certainly Carlos Sainz. Mercedes will do the same.

The world of Formula One takes advantage of an offer that for the Emirates it is also a form of advertising. Not that it’s not clear to the world’s rich and powerful that the Emirates are vaccine heaven. He told this in an investigation on Financial Times. According to the British newspaper, VIPs and billionaires from half the world have already passed through here.

The news reached the news that they were vaccinated here the sisters of King Felipe VI of Spain, Elena and Cristina. They did so a few months ago by going to visit their father who lives here after the corruption scandals in Spain. They are not the only ones. The Emirates have such an abundance of vaccines that they offer them to select personalities, including many managers.

The vaccine used is Pfizer’s, yes the one that has had the most cuts in Europe, and it’s free. Eni’s CEO, Claudio Descalzi, had it for work reasons. The financier British Ben Goldsmith explained to Financial Times: «It was not my intention to vaccinate, but since they offered it to me, I gladly accepted. The Emirates vaccinate anyone who asks. We happened to be in the right place at the right time ».

Obviously you have to be there and it’s not for everyone. Vaccination is well advanced for the local population, over half, more than 6 million out of 10 million inhabitants. The newspaper says he Emirates they think, for the coming months, of a real vaccination tourism, now the extra doses are for known people, when not residents, and with mainly working contacts. Local governments also speak of a security issue for the Emirates themselves: those who spend time here must be vaccinated even if they are not residents in order not to endanger the rest of the population.

But it’s not just businessmen who spend time here, a form of tourism for the very rich it’s already there, with people arriving on private jets and staying in 5-star hotels waiting to do both doses. There are those who have chosen to open companies here to have the privilege. As mentioned, this is not feasible for everyone.

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