Covid: South Africa ‘punished’ for detecting new Omicron variant
South Africa should be praised for discovering Omicron, not hit with travel bans, its officials say. …
“What is going on right now is inevitable, it’s a result of the world’s failure to vaccinate in an equitable, urgent and speedy manner. It is as a result of hoarding [of vaccines] by high-income countries of the world, and quite frankly it is unacceptable,” said AU vaccine delivery alliance co-chair Ayoade Alakija.