The UAE’s comprehensive plan to confront the Covid pandemic included 19 measures on policies and laws, ways to enhance food security and launch humanitarian initiatives. Here are some of the highlights:
Exceptional procedures and laws:
- Activating the virtual education system for about 2.1 million students
Training of 25,000 teachers and administrators in schools
Launching 9 initiatives to raise the readiness of young people to deal with epidemics
Introduce judicial legislation criminalizing the spread of gossip during crises
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- Emirates Today (@emaratalyoum) June 10, 2020
Enhanced food security:
- A strategic partnership with international research institutions to promote sustainable agriculture and solar water desalination
Increase the total food stocks for long periods by 30%
Directing national airlines to open air shipping lines for food and medical products
Control and control of food commodity prices and sterilization supplies
The Emirati Comprehensive Plan to Face Covid-19 .. Strengthening Food Security # Emirates_Today pic.twitter.com/IUGiOCpZnR
- Emirates Today (@emaratalyoum) June 11, 2020
Humanitarian initiatives:
- 215 citizens of many countries were evacuated from the Chinese province of Hubei to the "Humanitarian City" in Abu Dhabi
Providing about 200 tons of aid to support more than 150,000 medical professionals around the world, including:
To provide 20,000 test instruments to Malaysia
- Sending 13 tons of various medical and preventive supplies to Kazakhstan
- Sending 10 tons of various medical and preventive supplies to Colombia
- Sending about 10 tons of various medical and preventive supplies to Italy
The Emirati Comprehensive Plan to Face Covid-19 .. Humanitarian Initiatives # Emirates_Today pic.twitter.com/QQum0idICW
- Emirates Today (@emaratalyoum) June 12, 2020