Workers head to R1 million-a-month resorts while waiting for vaccines
Bloomberg21 February 2021
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When Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California would be entering its strictest lockdown yet in mid-December, some of his most well-to-do residents ran the other way – as far as they could – to places like sunny Belize.
Others, who’d seen the writing on the wall well ahead of time, were long gone.
Unlike the first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns, which sent people on road trips and to second homes, the second wave has globally triggered a desire for more permanent, warmer, far-flung escapes.
In the UK and Europe, the wealthy have flown to such warmer climates as Dubai, the Maldives, and Spain to escape winter lockdown, says Justin Huxter, founder of UK-based Cartology Travel.