Anger, Dismay Across Nigeria over UK’s Red Listing of Country

*UK’s action not supported by science, discriminatory and outrightly racistIn a policy many have described as racist, misguided and discriminatory, Britain’s ban on Nigerians from travelling to the United Kingdom , while allowing many western countries, where Omicron is also present is sparking fury among Nigerians across the country who are stoutly condemning the British government’s action, accusing it of racism.

Expectedly, many Nigerians are livid and have started to urge their leaders to reciprocate the poor treatment to the UK by banning their national carrier, the British Airways and Virgin Atlantic flights in addition to British citizens from Africa. “The UK, instead, chose to announce the ban without discussing the data in its possession with the Nigerian government,” a source said.

Speaking with THISDAY, a top official in the Ministry of Health and another reliable source at the NCDC, faulted the decision by the UK government.One of the sources wondered: “What data did they use in arriving at the decision? Are there people, who are Nigerians that travelled with a negative COVID-19 test and later got into London and tested positive? Did they talk to the NCDC or any Nigerian official? They just went ahead and put Nigeria on the red list.

“Is that the way it is done? Are we still in the era of slave trade? This is a total discrimination against the developing world, particularly, Africans. Africa will have to come together and take a position,” he added. “Meanwhile, this Omicron variant did not start from Africa, it started from Europe. So, what have they done to those European countries that the Omicron was also detected in their countries? Did they place them on red list too? The only possible explanation for targeting Africa, is because we are blacks. Racism is at the heart of the policy, nothing more, nothing less,” the source stated.

According to analysts, who faulted the action, the Omicron variant has now been found in over 40 countries around the world including many from the European Union but none has been banned by the British Government. The NPR also claimed that this variant had been found in other areas of the world, from Hong Kong to Israel.

Equally, the data showed that Zimbabwe had unspecified number of cases. Similarly, in the Americas, Brazil as of Friday had three cases; Canada – 10; and United States – 10. In Asia-Pacific, while Australia had reported nine cases as of Friday; Japan – two; India – two; Malaysia – one; Singapore – two; South Korea – six; and Sri Lanka had one case.

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