Remote workers flee to RM280,000-a-month resorts while awaiting vaccines

Wealthy Americans have fled to tropical bunkers, from Hawaii to Mexico and many parts of the Caribbean, waiting out the pandemic — AFP

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.