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Visitors at the Dubai International Boat Show in the United Arab Emirates on March 13, 2022.
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Sana Altaf
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DUBAI - When expatriate Ryan Ali left Singapore on a business trip to France in March 2020, little did he know that he would never return.
It was then that the Covid-19 pandemic ripped across the world.

