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Middle East Focus: Light on the horizon

Our MENA focus brings together commentary and analysis from across the region. Despite facing similar challenges to the rest of the world, leading law firms are finding plenty of reasons to be positive

Posted on 31 August 2021 09:30am31 August 2021 11:33am
Ella Marshall
Middle East and Africa International

Far from immune to the global crisis – but making concerted strides towards immunity in some instances – the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) has fared similarly to the rest of the world over the last year. That is to say that the universal impact of the pandemic has been felt across MENA, although the paths that the various countries have taken have been disparate.

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Early lockdowns in several countries helped to contain the number of coronavirus cases, and a number of success stories emerged from the region with Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – numbers one and two, respectively – frontrunners in rolling out their vaccine programmes. While distinct, both countries have adopted an agile approach to sourcing and distributing the vaccine.

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