PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has slammed rich Western countries for their knee-jerk imposition of travel bans after hearing about the new Omicron variant.
Ramaphosa was addressing the nation on Sunday night on developments in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Government officials are furious about a British ban on flights from southern African countries, on which several other countries followed suit.
Many South Africans feel they are being punished for their transparency and hard work in keeping tabs on the way the virus is mutating.
“This is a clear and completely unjustified departure from the commitment that many of these countries made at the meeting of G20 countries in Rome last month,” Ramaphosa said.
“The prohibition of travel is not informed by science, nor will it be effective in preventing the spread of this variant. The only thing (it) will do is to further damage the economies of the affected countries and
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