Scholarship students who returned to the UAE recently confirmed after their decision to return as part of the precautionary measures to prevent their infection with the Corona virus, they were the most reassured among students of different nationalities because of the comprehensive care they received through the embassies and consulates of the country abroad, where telephone lines were allocated to communicate with them on Around the clock, providing all services and facilities to ensure their safety throughout their stay abroad, and arranging all matters related to their return to the state.

The UAE decided earlier, that all students studying outside the country from scholarships from any scholarship or at their own expense and who are currently in the country of study are returning to the country, in coordination with scholarships, attachés and embassies in the country of study, within the framework of preventive and preventive steps to ensure the preservation of their safety in line with With the efforts and measures taken at the national level, aimed at countering the spread of the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19).

In detail, the student at the College of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Engineering at Carleton University in the city of Ottawa, the capital of Canada, Moaz al-Amiri, said that “the embassy was in constant contact with us from the first moment to announce the registration of the first case of HIV infection in Ottawa County, and we were informed of booking return tickets and waiting for us in The airport is to check on the completion of all procedures for our return to the Emirates ».

He added: "The UAE embassy in Canada has spared no effort to help us." He pointed out, “Once we arrived at Abu Dhabi Airport, we were sterilized and taken all necessary precautions and checks to ensure our safety. After that, we were connected to buses equipped to the hotel, and to accommodate every student in a room equipped with everything, and in full speed while preserving all precautionary measures. Currently we are in Preventive stone, and we thank all the people and employees who served us 24 hours. ”

Al-Amiri continued: “I do not deal with the quarantine as a mandatory reservation, but rather I consider it a relaxing period. We are all the time between studying and spending our needs. In the morning, I communicate with my family and friends and follow the news. In the evening, the time for study through the distance learning system with my university is As studying at the university continues with the distance education system, as if I had not left Canada. ”

For her part, Hamda Yusef Al Hammadi, a political science and economics student at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, said: “With the beginning of the emergence of cases of coronavirus in Britain, I stopped going to the university as a precaution that was reported to us by our embassy in London, especially since my lectures are recorded I can follow it from home, ”noting that“ since the emergence of the virus, the Emirati embassy and the cultural attaché have been following us and providing us with instructions through direct contact or the social networking site (Telegram) created by the cultural attaché to communicate directly with students dispatched in the kingdom. United ».

She added: “The Cultural Attaché contacted us immediately, and they told me that I should leave for the country as long as there is an alternative to continue my studies without going to university. The Cultural Attaché also contacted all British universities with citizen students to provide a distance education system to ensure student safety, and accelerate Their return to the country, especially in light of the high number of cases that Britain was witnessing at that time ».

And she continued: «From my departure from residence in Britain until my arrival at Birmingham Airport, I was committed to the precautionary precautions that the embassy informed us until my arrival at Dubai airport, where we were received and passed through thermal cameras.

Al-Hammadi continued her speech by saying: “I arrived in the medical examination for the virus, adhered to the home stone, and the results were negative, and preventive medicine communicates with us daily to check on us, and to ask about any symptoms we feel, and the Ministry of Health and Community Protection contacted us to check on our health, In addition to the constant communication from the embassy in Britain via e-mail.

For his part, the student with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and software, specialized in electronic games design at Canadian University of Brook, Zinedine Ammar, confirmed that he had received all support and support from the UAE embassy in Canada, where he had been contacted since the beginning of the Corona virus, and he was asked to register on «Response» Then, the embassy started sending special instructions for prevention methods and communicating with him at any time, and he was informed of the need to return to the Emirates based on the official instructions issued, and to provide the assistance that he might need.

He said: "After my return I committed to the quarantine in the hotel until the 14-day period ends, to ensure that the safety of my family and the community are preserved."

While the PhD student in the Department of Mental and Occupational Health in the United Kingdom, Dr. Amna Al Naboodah said: “Once I monitored the high incidence of HIV infection in Britain, I received letters from the embassy that I should return to the UAE if the university provided a distance education system, and as a PhD student it was easier for students Bachelor's, as we do not have mandatory lectures, and I contacted the embassy, ​​booked and returned to the state, and upon my return I contacted the Ministry of Health and Community Protection and the Health Authority in Dubai, and I was informed of the need to do the necessary exams, and stay in the home quarantine for a period of not less than 14 days , And reporting immediately in the event of any symptoms of hot or cough », indicating that it is fine, and did not show any symptoms.

4340 students number of scholarships abroad

The number of Emirati students on scholarships abroad reached 4,340, as the UAE decided on March 23 to return them within 48 hours in coordination with scholarship, attachés and embassies in the country of study.

- The country's embassies sent students instructions on ways to prevent and communicate with them at any time.