A string of tycoons, politicians and royalty have descended in recent months on the United Arab Emirates, where friends in high places have helped them secure early access to coronavirus vaccines.
British financier Ben Goldsmith and executives at SoftBank are among those to benefit from swift inoculation against Covid-19 as members of the ruling family and government officials have used its plentiful vaccine supplies to help some non-residents get the jabs.
Goldsmith, an adviser to the UK government and the son of financier Jimmy Goldsmith, said he had travelled to the oil-rich Gulf state before tighter coronavirus measures were enforced in December and decided to stay rather than returning home to lockdown.
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