Deep Knowledge Group (DKG), a London-based DeepTech, has named Abu Dhabi the world’s most pandemic-resilient city.
The ranking recognizes the emirate’s solid healthcare infrastructure, commitment and leadership, and reflects its efficient and timely COVID-19 pandemic response, which reinforced Abu Dhabi’s healthcare sector as a leading model regionally and internationally.
In a similar report published by DKG in the first half of 2021, Abu Dhabi was also ranked as the leading city in response to COVID-19 globally. Since then, an additional 28 cities have been examined and added to the ranking, which now assesses a total of 100 cities.
In a similar report published by DKG in the first half of 2021, Abu Dhabi was also ranked as the leading city in response to COVID-19 globally. Since then, an additional 28 cities have been examined and added to the ranking, which now assesses a total of 100 cities.
The Pandemic-Resilient Cities Ranking evaluates the continued progress of key cities and presents additional policy recommendations to rectify major shortcomings. The report is based on six parameters that city governments have been focusing on to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and demonstrate resilience and readiness for similar public health issues in the future. These parameters are government efficiency, economic resilience, healthcare management, quarantine measures, vaccination strategy and cultural compliance.
As a result of its robust and successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Abu Dhabi was able to ensure business continuity without any closures, which enabled the emirate to preserve the health and safety of the wider community, ensure business continuity, and enable all sectors to advance the emirate’s economic development.
The emirate achieved a COVID-19 testing capacity of over 500,000 tests per day and established 27 drive-through testing and vaccination centers across the emirate with nearly 100 per cent of the community receiving the COVID-19 vaccination. Additionally, Abu Dhabi succeeded in increasing the healthcare capacity by 200 per cent, pertaining to the number of patient beds at hospitals, as well as the increasing number of intensive care beds by 300 per cent. All of this supported by an agile, data driven, science based and world leading policies and intervention that resulted in one of the lowest mortality rate and infection per capita rate globally.
The efforts come in line with Abu Dhabi’s efforts to leverage life science, innovation, digitalization and medical tourism to position itself as a leading destination for healthcare. The emirate continues to provide the latest innovative treatments to preserve the health and safety of the community. DoH signed strategic agreements with major international pharmaceutical companies to provide the latest treatments to patients with mild, moderate and critical symptoms and immunocompromised patients who cannot receive vaccinations; and to provide preventive treatments to protect all members of the community from the COVID-19 virus.
Furthermore, Abu Dhabi also received the first global shipment of AstraZeneca’s Evusheld, which generates antibodies for immunocompromised patients. Additionally, Abu Dhabi and Roche, the world’s largest biotech company, announced a strategic partnership to adopt the latter’s casirivimab and imdevimab for the prevention and treatment of mild to moderate symptoms of COVID-19 patients.
Globally, Abu Dhabi plays a leading role in the global efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, through its participation in clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutic innovations, and through its contributions to accelerating the pace of vaccine and medicine development and distribution to the world. Abu Dhabi was able to successfully leverage its prime geographical location and advanced healthcare infrastructure to establish the unique pharma corridor, HOPE Consortium. The Abu Dhabi-led public private partnership helped lead the global effort against the COVID-19 pandemic through delivering over 260 million vaccine doses to over 60 nations around the world. The Emirate’s testing capabilities for COVID-19 are also being used to assist several countries in their epidemiological investigation efforts.
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