The UAE recorded 1,348 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday as new infections rose slightly for the second consecutive day.
Health officials reported 1,229 infections on May 14 – the lowest daily number this year.
The UAE’s outbreak has eased after hitting its peak in January. The highest number of cases, 3,977, were reported on February 3.
The average number of daily cases in the Emirates has stayed below 2,000 since April 27.
Wednesday’s caseload brought the country’s total number of infections to 550,029.
Total recoveries climbed to 530,085, after 1,316 people beat the virus in the 24-hour reporting period.
Another two deaths were reported, taking the UAE’s Covid-19 fatalities to 1,639.
There are 18,305 active cases in the Emirates.
An additional 249,847 tests were conducted in the past 24 hours. The UAE has carried out more than 47 million tests since the first Covid-19 case was reported on January 29 last year.
The UAE began its vaccination campaign in December and has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
On Tuesday, health officials said more than 11.5m vaccine doses were administered across the country.
The UAE has also approved the use of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 12-15 and aims to vaccinate all eligible adults by the end of 2021.
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Aged just 11, Khulood Al Najjar’s daughter, Nora, bravely attempted to fight off Philip Spence. Her finger was injured when she put her hand in between the claw hammer and her mother’s head.
As a vital witness, she was forced to relive the ordeal by police who needed to identify the attacker and ensure he was found guilty.
Now aged 16, Nora has decided she wants to dedicate her career to helping other victims of crime.
“It was very horrible for her. She saw her mum, dying, just next to her eyes. But now she just wants to go forward,” said Khulood, speaking about how her eldest daughter was dealing with the trauma of the incident five years ago. “She is saying, 'mama, I want to be a lawyer, I want to help people achieve justice'.”
Khulood’s youngest daughter, Fatima, was seven at the time of the attack and attempted to help paramedics responding to the incident.
“Now she wants to be a maxillofacial doctor,” Khulood said. “She said to me ‘it is because a maxillofacial doctor returned your face, mama’. Now she wants to help people see themselves in the mirror again.”
Khulood’s son, Saeed, was nine in 2014 and slept through the attack. While he did not witness the trauma, this made it more difficult for him to understand what had happened. He has ambitions to become an engineer.
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Community volunteers have swung into action delivering food packages and toiletries to the men.
When provisions are distributed, the men line up in long queues for packets of rice, flour, sugar, salt, pulses, milk, biscuits, shaving kits, soap and telecom cards.
Volunteers from St Mary’s Catholic Church said some workers came to the church to pray for their families and ask for assistance.
Boxes packed with essential food items were distributed to workers in the Dubai Investments Park and Ras Al Khaimah camps last week. Workers at the Sonapur camp asked for Dh1,600 towards their gas bill.
“Especially in this year of tolerance we consider ourselves privileged to be able to lend a helping hand to our needy brothers in the Actco camp," Father Lennie Connully, parish priest of St Mary’s.
Workers spoke of their helplessness, seeing children’s marriages cancelled because of lack of money going home. Others told of their misery of being unable to return home when a parent died.
“More than daily food, they are worried about not sending money home for their family,” said Kusum Dutta, a volunteer who works with the Indian consulate.
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