- In 2020, South Africa was among the countries that selectively closed its borders, for fear of the coronavirus.
- After a long total travel ban, SA created a list of high-risk countries from which travellers remained banned.
- South Africa declined to add any African countries to that red list.
- A year later, four African states – including Angola and Rwanda – are among those to have banned flights or people from South Africa amid new Omicron measures.
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In October 2020, South Africa reopened its borders after a long coronavirus lockdown. In order to mitigate the risk of doing so, the government said, it was essential to retain restrictions on countries with higher level of Covid-19 spread than in South Africa. So leisure travellers from many of SA’s most important sources of tourists – including the United…