South Africa's corona experts appalled by travel restrictions

South Africa's corona experts are appalled by the travel restrictions that many countries around the globe have imposed after the country sounded the alarm.

Johannisburg - "We will soon run out of reagents because there are no more planes flying to South Africa," said Tulio de Oliveira, head of the CERI institute, which provided the first information about the new Corona variant Omicron on Monday. "It'll be 'nasty' if we can't answer the world's questions about Omikron because of the travel ban." Marvin Hsiao, virologist at the University of Cape Town, also believes that the restrictions are pointless.

"Good luck with your travel bans". There are already infections worldwide. In the opinion of many experts, the travel restrictions cannot stop the new variant, but they do penalize countries for their transparency and thus possibly cause greater damage in the long term - if not the next variant might appear and possibly be kept secret, so the fear.

In the meantime there are also infections with Omicron in several countries that can no longer be traced directly to travelers from South Africa, for example in Belgium and Scotland.

Source: Der Newsticker

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