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Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the President African Development Bank (AfDB) says the travel ban on some African countries over Omicron

, the new COVID-19 variant is “very unfair, non-scientific and discriminatory”.

Adesina, who said this through his verified twitter handle @akin_adesina, urged the western countries to lift the travel ban on the African countries” Why single out African countries, singling out African countries is very unfair, nonscientific and discriminatory. “Global vaccines and travel apartheid against Africa are endangering lives, hurting economies, lives, jobs and livelihoods from a pandemic Africa didThe News Agency of Nigeria reports that following the reports of the newly detected coronavirus variant in South Africa, many developed countries have been shutting their doors against African countries with no records of the variant.

The variant which was detected last week in Botswana had since then been found in countries across the globe from Scotland to Canada.

 

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