A global race is underway to contain the Omicron coronavirus variant by testing vaccines and restricting travel.
A raft of countries have limited travel or ordered quarantines on individuals arriving from southern Africa, while others say they are reviewing fresh restrictions.
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has slammed travel bans as discriminatory and “completely unjustified”, while Malawi’s leader has accused western nations of “Afrophobia”.
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