DUBAI (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates will gradually lift restrictions imposed to check the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the number of infections and hospitalisations has gone down, the state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday.
Venues will be allowed to function at maximum capacity by mid-February, it said, citing the National Emergency Crisis Management Authority.
The oil-rich federation reported on Wednesday 1,538 new coronavirus infections and four deaths in the past 24 hours, according to WAM. The total numbers of COVID-related cases and deaths recorded in the country are respectively 862,514 and 2,273, it said.
The UAE has one of the world’s highest vaccination rates.
(Reporting by Yasmin Hussein and writing by Maher Chmaytelli; Editing by Toby Chopra)
