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Dubai ready to host Expo 2020 despite Covid challenge, says tourism chief
Dubai has a very clear plan on how to deal with Covid-19 and will be ready to receive visitors for the world Expo exhibition this year, a government official said.
“We feel very confident,” Helal Al Marri, director general of Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, said in an interview with CNN. “We’re going to be ready to make sure that the growth starts this summer and by Expo in the fourth quarter, we look to welcome the world.”
The Expo, which Dubai has been preparing for a decade, is meant to be one of the biggest events globally this year and generate billions of dollars for the government. The resurgence of the virus in recent months has complicated the planning.
