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    Inside the UAE Tour coronavirus lockdown

    Mar 05, 2020 2 minutes
    Photos Getty Images

    I left my hotel room for the lobby in the middle of the night — no make-up, hair a mess and panicked.

    I’d woken at 2am on Friday to a WhatsApp group buzzing with news of two positive tests for coronavirus at the UAE Tour where I was working.

    In the elevator I scanned issued statements; two people

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