Travel ban: Africa not source of COVID-19, should not be punished for Omicron variant - Akinwumi Adesina

The 61-year-old campaigner for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines globally also said that Africa should not be punished for the Omicron COVID-19 variant and other mutations that occur randomly anywhere in the world.

The former Nigerian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development wrote, “Africa should not be labelled and penalized for COVID-19 variants and mutations that occur randomly elsewhere in the world. Africa is not the source of COVID-19. “Africa must accelerate the manufacturing of its own vaccines & set up its own ‘healthcare security defence system’. Africa must no longer outsource health security of its 1.8 billion people to the benevolence of others.”The World Health Organisation had on Friday declared the new COVID-19 strain first discovered in South Africa to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron.

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They were hoping Africans would be dieing of the Wuhan virus Covid-19, left right & center. But God shamed them. Now they've 'manufactured' another variant. How do they know it's a variants if they do not know it's molucular make up & how was it tested? The variants are...1/

Stay in your country nw by force ni.

They don't care!!!

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