An electronic flight notice board displaying cancelled flights at OR Tambo International Airport.
- SA scientists have called on the UK and other countries to reverse damaging travel bans.
- The travel bans began after the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus by top scientists in South Africa.
- Scientists state that the restrictions are unlikely to stop the spread of Covid-19, unless countries can completely seal their borders to travellers.
South African scientists have called on the UK and other countries to reverse damaging travel bans which were imposed after the discovery of the Omicron variant of the virus that causes Covid-19.
In a piece published in The Lancet on Friday, Professors Marc Mendelson, Francois Venter, Mosa Moshabela, Glenda Gray, Lucille Blumberg, Tulio de Oliveira and Shabir Madhi called the action unwarranted and pointed out that it…