Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group, has condemned travel bans imposed on African countries due to the latest COVID-19 variant, Omicron. Dr...
Officials have revealed that the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, was present in the Netherlands earlier than previously thought. It was identified in two test samples taken...
US President Joe Biden has called the Omicron Covid variant a “cause for concern, not a cause for panic” one day after it was detected in...
Rwanda has barred direct flights to and from nine countries in southern Africa, joining a growing list of nations that have imposed travel restrictions over a...
Japan, the world’s third-biggest economy, will close its borders to all foreigners, while Australia’s plans to re-open to skilled migrants were also in doubt as nations...
Israel is to ban foreigners from entering the country for 14 days and use surveillance to halt the spread of the new Covid strain, ‘Omicron’ according...
Two people in the UK have been found to be infected with the new Covid variant, Omicron, the health secretary has said. Sajid Javid said the...
South Africa’s health ministry on Friday attacked a global rush to impose travel bans to slow the spread of a new Covid variant as “draconian,” unscientific...
Brazil will shut its borders to travellers arriving from six southern African countries, the chief of staff to President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday, the latest...
The US will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other southern African countries to try to contain a new COVID-19 variant spreading there. From Monday,...