UAE Covid-19: How the Emirates fares on a global scale in five charts

UAE Covid-19: How the Emirates fares on a global scale in five charts

A year since the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, our lives have completely transformed. People have been separated with mandated distancing, faces must be covered with masks and a variety of other rules are in place to keep everyone safe from the debilitating and deadly virus.

Countries have imposed a series of rules to contain the spread, from mandatory quarantine to travel restrictions. Now vaccines are bringing hope for a return to normal life again.

In these five graphs, The National assesses the current, global state of play and how the UAE has fared in terms of cases, recoveries, deaths and