The last two weeks were a bit tens in our household but during the last two, three days relaxation set finally in. Mostly because we feel like we dodged a bullet this time.
On August the 6th my husband had a business meeting. The meeting was not long, under two hours and my husband didn't think of it anymore except for when he was having a follow-up call with the person in question. To his surprise, the person was being sick, having shortly after their meeting come down with Covid - despite being fully vaccinated.
Since we are not fully vaccinated yet (paper works were dragging out in time and only full residents get vaccinated with a couple of weeks between the two shots) and we just on the day of the follow-up call started to all get a soar throat and that day was precisely four days after the meeting, we were definitely a bit panicked.
Now, a soar throat or very slight cold symptoms of any sort are nothing unusual here, viruses get distributed via the AC, the temperature differences between outside and inside give the body extra work to adjust but normally it will go over within a couple of days. But in context with that meeting we say enough reasons to worry.
Despite lingering on for the better part of at least a week, the symptoms slowly vanished without ever going beyond soar throat and slight headache and since a couple of days we felt like we could really let the thought of a possible Covid-infection go. We of course kept ourselves at home and did not meet up other people for the first ten days after the meeting.
This was the first time in Dubai that we had such a close call and it is a good reason to give an update on the Covid situation here. All in all the situation seems to be under control. The UAE is holding the number one spot in Covid vaccinations. Children from the age of 3 can have the Sinopharm vaccine in Abu Dhabi, from the age of 12 BioNTech-Pfizer in all of UAE. BioNTech-Pfizer is also offered as a booster shot but whom can take it and when depends on the emirate you are in.
Cases are currently lingering around 1,000 daily which is "okay" considering that everybody is moving freely and restrictions have been lowered significantly during the last weeks. It is a bit hard to get number on severe cases here in the UAE but they do of course exist. 2009 people have all in all died - compare this to the over 14,000 cases in Sweden that has roughly the same number of inhabitants.
What has been communicated though is that people that are not vaccinated are more likely to be hospitalized and die. So we are a bit in a hurry here.
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