UAE will be fastest country to recover from COVID-19: H.H. Sheikh Mohammed

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The UAE will be the fastest in the world to recover from COVID-19, and the country will start 2021 with a series of major initiatives.

That's according to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, who said the UAE's Golden Jubilee year, 2021 will be different from all previous years.

In a series of Tweets, His Highness also announced the launch of GITEX Technology Week on December 6 with the participation of 1,200 companies from 60 countries.

He said it will be the "most important and realistic global technical event in 2020."

"We will conclude 2020 with a global event and we will start 2021 with a series of projects and major initiatives ... 2021 is our fiftieth anniversary and our golden jubilee, and it will be different from all years," Sheikh Mohammed explained.

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