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Most coronavirus screening centres in Dubai have not cut prices to Dh50, with private clinics charging up to Dh150 ($40) per test on Tuesday.
At most hospitals and doctors' surgeries across the city, prices were unchanged.
On Monday, the Ministry of Health and Prevention set out a "nationwide" cap of Dh50 for nasal swab and saliva tests.
Dubai Health Authority did not respond to requests for clarification, but the authorities have set out a series of separate rules, including when pupils returned to schools on Sunday.
When The National called several clinics in Abu Dhabi, Ajman and Sharjah on Tuesday, staff confirmed that the price had been slashed in accordance with the new rules. Clinics and hospitals were ordered to deliver results to patients with 24 hours.
Screening tents operated by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) in Dubai, including centres in Mina Rashed, City Walk and Al Khawaneej, were offering the test for Dh50, however other private clinics in the city were not.
Mediclinic Parkview Hospital in Dubai South and Mediclinic Health Centre in Deira were still charging Dh150 for a PCR test at its drive-through and walk-in facilities.
Staff at Prime Medical in Motor City said prices at the clinic also remained at Dh150, with results turned around within 24 hours.
At the Mena Labs drive-through tent in Umm Suqeim, a staff member said PCR tests still cost Dh110 and results would be delivered within a day. Most home testing services, which involve a nurse taking a swab test in a private residence, were charging Dh170 to Dh200.
Several drive-through vaccine and screening centres in Dubai are run by Abu Dhabi's public hospital operator Seha, with the largest at Dubai Parks and Resorts in Jebel Ali.
Prices there were previously capped at Dh65 and are expected to be reduced in line with the latest ministry decision.
The Dh50 cap on tests came into effect as the government cut screening for Covid-19 to one of the lowest rates globally.
Health authorities have cut the price of PCR tests several times over the past 18 months to encourage more people to safeguard themselves against Covid-19 through regular testing.
The announcement by the Health Ministry came only a day after schools across the country welcomed pupils back to the classroom for in-person lessons.
In Abu Dhabi, pupils have been offered free PCR tests throughout the month of September. In other emirates, some schools have requested that pupils undergo regular PCR testing for the initial return-to-school phases to try to limit the spread of the virus on campus.
The UAE recorded 996 new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday as case numbers remained below 1,000 for the eighth day in a row.
The latest cases were detected as a result of another 329,146 PCR tests.
The President's Cake
Director: Hasan Hadi
Starring: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Sajad Mohamad Qasem
Rating: 4/5
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How much do leading UAE’s UK curriculum schools charge for Year 6?
- Nord Anglia International School (Dubai) – Dh85,032
- Kings School Al Barsha (Dubai) – Dh71,905
- Brighton College Abu Dhabi - Dh68,560
- Jumeirah English Speaking School (Dubai) – Dh59,728
- Gems Wellington International School – Dubai Branch – Dh58,488
- The British School Al Khubairat (Abu Dhabi) - Dh54,170
- Dubai English Speaking School – Dh51,269
*Annual tuition fees covering the 2024/2025 academic year
Tamkeen's offering
- Option 1: 70% in year 1, 50% in year 2, 30% in year 3
- Option 2: 50% across three years
- Option 3: 30% across five years
A new relationship with the old country
Treaty of Friendship between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United Arab Emirates
The United kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United Arab Emirates; Considering that the United Arab Emirates has assumed full responsibility as a sovereign and independent State; Determined that the long-standing and traditional relations of close friendship and cooperation between their peoples shall continue; Desiring to give expression to this intention in the form of a Treaty Friendship; Have agreed as follows:
ARTICLE 1 The relations between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United Arab Emirates shall be governed by a spirit of close friendship. In recognition of this, the Contracting Parties, conscious of their common interest in the peace and stability of the region, shall: (a) consult together on matters of mutual concern in time of need; (b) settle all their disputes by peaceful means in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.
ARTICLE 2 The Contracting Parties shall encourage education, scientific and cultural cooperation between the two States in accordance with arrangements to be agreed. Such arrangements shall cover among other things: (a) the promotion of mutual understanding of their respective cultures, civilisations and languages, the promotion of contacts among professional bodies, universities and cultural institutions; (c) the encouragement of technical, scientific and cultural exchanges.
ARTICLE 3 The Contracting Parties shall maintain the close relationship already existing between them in the field of trade and commerce. Representatives of the Contracting Parties shall meet from time to time to consider means by which such relations can be further developed and strengthened, including the possibility of concluding treaties or agreements on matters of mutual concern.
ARTICLE 4 This Treaty shall enter into force on today’s date and shall remain in force for a period of ten years. Unless twelve months before the expiry of the said period of ten years either Contracting Party shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the Treaty, this Treaty shall remain in force thereafter until the expiry of twelve months from the date on which notice of such intention is given.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned have signed this Treaty.
DONE in duplicate at Dubai the second day of December 1971AD, corresponding to the fifteenth day of Shawwal 1391H, in the English and Arabic languages, both texts being equally authoritative.
Signed
Geoffrey Arthur Sheikh Zayed
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Countdown to Zero exhibition will show how disease can be beaten
Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease, an international multimedia exhibition created by the American Museum of National History in collaboration with The Carter Center, will open in Abu Dhabi a month before Reaching the Last Mile.
Opening on October 15 and running until November 15, the free exhibition opens at The Galleria mall on Al Maryah Island, and has already been seen at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Know your cyber adversaries
Cryptojacking: Compromises a device or network to mine cryptocurrencies without an organisation's knowledge.
Distributed denial-of-service: Floods systems, servers or networks with information, effectively blocking them.
Man-in-the-middle attack: Intercepts two-way communication to obtain information, spy on participants or alter the outcome.
Malware: Installs itself in a network when a user clicks on a compromised link or email attachment.
Phishing: Aims to secure personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.
Ransomware: Encrypts user data, denying access and demands a payment to decrypt it.
Spyware: Collects information without the user's knowledge, which is then passed on to bad actors.
Trojans: Create a backdoor into systems, which becomes a point of entry for an attack.
Viruses: Infect applications in a system and replicate themselves as they go, just like their biological counterparts.
Worms: Send copies of themselves to other users or contacts. They don't attack the system, but they overload it.
Zero-day exploit: Exploits a vulnerability in software before a fix is found.
