Parking fees will be reactivated from Saturday, May 7. Photo: RTA
Parking fees will be reactivated from Saturday, May 7. Photo: RTA
Parking fees will be reactivated from Saturday, May 7. Photo: RTA
Parking fees will be reactivated from Saturday, May 7. Photo: RTA

UAE

Transport

Eid Al Fitr 2022: Dubai announces week-long free parking from Saturday

Parking fees will be reactivated from Saturday, May 7

The National

April 28, 2022

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Public parking will be free throughout Dubai during the Eid Al Fitr holiday.

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority said parking charges would be waived from Saturday April 30 until Friday, May 6 inclusive.

Parking fees will be reactivated from Saturday, May 7, the RTA said on its social media channels.

Government workers will have a week-long holiday for Eid Al Fitr, while private sector workers will have a holiday from Saturday, April 30 until Tuesday, May 3 or Wednesday, May 4, depending on the start date of Eid.

Key public transport services will continue to operate as normal throughout the holiday.

The RTA's Customers Happiness Centres will be closed from Saturday April 30 to Sunday May 8, reopening on Monday May 9, 2022. Service provider centres (technical testing) will be closed from Saturday, April 30 until Saturday, May 7 and resume operations on Sunday, May 8.

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Sinopharm vaccine explained

The Sinopharm vaccine was created using techniques that have been around for decades. 

“This is an inactivated vaccine. Simply what it means is that the virus is taken, cultured and inactivated," said Dr Nawal Al Kaabi, chair of the UAE's National Covid-19 Clinical Management Committee.

"What is left is a skeleton of the virus so it looks like a virus, but it is not live."

This is then injected into the body.

"The body will recognise it and form antibodies but because it is inactive, we will need more than one dose. The body will not develop immunity with one dose," she said.

"You have to be exposed more than one time to what we call the antigen."

The vaccine should offer protection for at least months, but no one knows how long beyond that.

Dr Al Kaabi said early vaccine volunteers in China were given shots last spring and still have antibodies today.

“Since it is inactivated, it will not last forever," she said.

What is type-1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is a genetic and unavoidable condition, rather than the lifestyle-related type 2 diabetes.

It occurs mostly in people under 40 and a result of the pancreas failing to produce enough insulin to regulate blood sugars.

Too much or too little blood sugar can result in an attack where sufferers lose consciousness in serious cases.

Being overweight or obese increases the chances of developing the more common type 2 diabetes.

What can victims do?

Always use only regulated platforms

Stop all transactions and communication on suspicion

Save all evidence (screenshots, chat logs, transaction IDs)

Report to local authorities

Warn others to prevent further harm

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scandal. 

Barings Bank collapsed in February 1995 following colossal
losses caused by rogue trader Nick Lesson. 

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