Within a day‚ travel bans had already been introduced‚ first by the UK and then by a host of other nations against a number of Southern African countries. Yesterday the UK extended the restrictions by this including Nigeria in its travel red list.
South Africa’s top scientists say that at the time European and other countries began to impose travel bans, the horse had long since bolted. Omicron had likely ‘already spread globally’, they wrote in the Lancet this week.
The authors — Marc Mendelson‚ Francois Venter‚ Mosa Moshabela
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