Abu Dhabi Police have now launched a permit system which allows residents to enter and leave the emirate on Tuesday. The mechanism – for essential travel only – was put in place as a one-week ban on travel came into effect.
For the next seven days, residents of Abu Dhabi city, Al Ain and Al Dhafra can travel within their cities but not leave them – and cannot go to other emirates. The travel ban does not prevent people from leaving their homes – and the permit is not needed for shopping, going to work, leisure activities or otherwise.
“With the expansion of the project to include high-density areas, and to ensure that the largest possible number of the emirate’s population are reached as quickly as possible, we had to ban movement between cities and reduce contact as much as possible,” – Sheikh Abdulla Al Hamed, chairman of Department of Health – Abu Dhabi.
