New rules for attending #Expo2020Dubai! Visitors must be Covid-19 vaccinated or PCR tested

Visitors to Expo 2020 Dubai must show they have received a coronavirus vaccine or have had a recent PCR test to enter the site when it opens. 

The expo delivery authority on Wednesday issued new Covid-19 guidelines for visitors to the event before its opening on October 1. Visitors will be required to present proof of any vaccine recognised by their own national government or a negative PCR test taken within the previous 72 hours. Non-vaccinated ticket-holders who have not been tested within the 72-hour period can test at the PCR testing facility adjacent to the Expo 2020 site. 

Expo plans to make PCR testing free of charge to ticket-holders -the Expo 1-Day or Multi-Day Pass - at one of a network of testing centres across the city, which will be available on the Expo 2020 website. Expo 2020 Dubai will be the largest global gathering since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nationwide, the UAE has administered almost 19 million vaccination doses and fully immunised 80 per cent of its population. 

Dubai has seen a steady influx of visitors since it reopened to tourists in July 2020, and the emirate welcomed 2.85 million visitors in the first half of 2021, with numbers predicted to accelerate in the fourth quarter, boosted by Expo 2020 Dubai and the UAE’s Golden Jubilee celebrations.