Dubai Airports CEO says travel sector needs states to cooperate on vaccines

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Dubai Airports' chief executive has urged wealthy nations to better help poorer states in accessing Covid-19 vaccines, saying global travel was unlikely to reach previous heights without most people being vaccinated.

“If you're serious about wanting to go back to the degree of mobility we had before, then I am afraid the protection of the majority is going to be the agenda that prevails,” Paul Griffiths told the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai.

Griffiths said he did not like the idea of countries restricting entry to the vaccinated and called for a more equitable vaccine distribution.

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